When anything enters Earth's atmosphere, it's typically in a fiery blaze.In the case of rockets and satellites, all that heat can strip metals off the spacecraft, which end up lingering in the ...

Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere. The microphones picked up aircraft, thunder, explosions, colliding ocean waves, as well as some ...

Daniel Bowman and other researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, have been sending solar-powered balloons with sensors into the stratosphere to record sounds in the second layer of the Earth's ...

The International Space Station's Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor (ASIM) observatory caught a single blue "jet" (upward-shooting lightning) from a thunderstorm cell, along with four "elves ...

Solar-powered balloons floating in the stratosphere have recorded low-frequency sounds of mysterious origin. “When we started flying balloons years ago, we didn’t really know what we’d hear ...

The devastating Australian bushfires of 2019–20 sent massive plumes of smoke high into the atmosphere, ... atmospheric chemists was to explain its unique seasonal and spatial characteristics.

In January more than 100 communications satellites burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, vaporising as they crashed towards the planet at about eight kilometres a second. These spectacular exits are ...