A fleeting burst of red light high above a Kimberley storm, in Western Australia's far north, has been caught on camera by a storm-chasing photographer. The eruption of red, luminous sparks is known ...

1 Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock, Kühlungsborn, Germany 2 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom The mesosphere and ...

thermal characteristics (temperature changes), chemical composition, movement, and density. Each of the layers are bounded by "pauses" where the greatest changes in thermal characteristics, chemical ...

With a blast of light, the wafer-thin metal “parachutes” levitate into the air. The curious inventions are each smaller than a dime and need no solar panels, propellers, or engines to move. Future ...

One of the three rockets for the TOMEX+ mission sits on a launcher at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Photo by Danielle Johnson/NASA Aug. 20 (UPI) --NASA is planning to launch TOMEX+ rocket ...

Aug. 20 (UPI) --NASA is planning to launch TOMEX+ rocket mission to study the turbulence where Earth's atmosphere ends and outer space begins sometime over the next two weeks. The earliest the agency ...

Scientists have devised tiny featherweight disks that could float freely in Earth’s mesosphere or the thin air of Mars, theoretically even while carrying payloads. Our mesosphere, which extends about ...

Earth’s mesosphere is a “no-fly zone.” The air in this layer of the upper atmosphere is too thin to support traditional aircraft. But new, lightweight devices could defy that rule, requiring only ...

Researchers have used a phenomenon known as thermal transpiration to create a solar-powered flying device that can stay aloft without any moving parts. The diminutive device, just one centimetre ...

Between 50 and 100 kilometers (30–60 miles) above the Earth's surface lies a largely unstudied stretch of the atmosphere, called the mesosphere. It's too high for airplanes and weather balloons, too ...

Noctilucent clouds over the Baltic Sea, as seen from Germany in 2019. Typically seen in polar regions, the clouds are increasingly appearing at mid- and low latitudes. Matthias Süßen via Wikimedia ...