Ionosphere
Following the 3,000th orbit of NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission’s…
Key Points The largest solar storm in two decades hit Earth in May 2024. For several days, wave after wave…
Auroras, often called the northern lights (aurora borealis) or southern lights (aurora australis), are colorful, dynamic, and often visually delicate…
Discover the wonders of the night sky! Learn how Earth's atmosphere transforms after dark, setting the stage for breathtaking phenomena…
An international team of scientists has successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Earth as…
After contributing to many important findings on the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and space — an area where space weather…
Who knew Earth’s upper atmosphere was like alphabet soup? NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has…
May 2024 has already proven to be a particularly stormy month for our Sun. During the first full week of…
