SYFY ’s The Ark follows the crew of an interstellar spacecraft on a multi-light-year journey to the star next door. In the ...

U .S. astronaut Nichole "Vapor" Ayers captured a spectacular view of a phenomenon known as a "sprite" blazing to life above an intense thunderstorm — and she did this while orbiting 250 miles (400 ...

Once a ballistic missile is fired into the air, a defender has only minutes to identify its precise trajectory and try to shoot it down. Even the world’s best defenses can’t always stop them.

There's something very peculiar about the atmosphere surrounding Titan, Saturn's largest moon: rather than staying constantly fixed in line with its surface, the atmosphere wobbles across the course ...

Sporadic E layers lit up during a solar storm, moving from poles to equator—surprising researchers and revealing potential communication threats.

When satellites vaporise, they seed the stratosphere (the region of the atmosphere between 10km and 50km above Earth’s surface) with particles of constituent metals, including aluminium, copper ...

Does Trappist-1b resemble Saturn's moon Titan? Earlier JWST measurements of the planet's radiation at a single wavelength of 15 micrometers suggested a thick carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere was ...

Earth’s space junk may be wreaking havoc on the stratosphere. The rapid surge in satellite megaconstellations is connecting much of the world to broadband internet. But each year, hundreds of ...

We got an exclusive look inside Sceye's hangar in Roswell, New Mexico, a week before the company launched its balloon-like high-altitude platform system into the stratosphere.

The temporal variation characteristics of local tropopause are derived from the routine radiosonde data obtained at Wuhan( 30.5° N, 114° E)and Haikou (20°N, 114°E) from 2000 to 2004. By discussing the ...