Diagram of Atmosphere Layers (IMAGE) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption. A layer of charged particles, called the ionosphere, surrounds Earth, extending from about 50 to 400 miles ...

Atmosphere Diagram (IMAGE) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption. The ionosphere is a layer of charged particles in Earth's atmosphere that extends from about 50 to 360 miles above the ...

The stratosphere contains tiny blobs of sulfuric acid, which are now infused with the metals from old spacecraft. The presence of those metals could change the chemistry of the stratosphere ...

Climate change is having an increasing impact on the structure of Earth's atmosphere, a new international study shows. The research draws on decades of observations to quantify that warming ...

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 ...