The diffuse aurora, which is hard to see and has long been neglected despite its great importance to the energy budget of the upper atmosphere, has been attracting greater interest. On page 943 of ...

Scientists have proposed a surprising connection between solar flares and earthquakes. When solar activity disturbs the ...

The single whistler event was recorded over a crustal magnetic field, at an altitude of 349 kilometers (217 miles) on the night side of Mars. This last part is crucial: When under the direct glare of ...

Rockets can leave a mark on the atmosphere well after they've left, and SpaceX may have learned that first-hand. Researchers have determined that a Falcon 9 launch in August 2017 (the Formosat-5 ...

Last week, NASA announced the release of an amazing dynamic Google Earth resource which shows time animated condition of the Earth’s Ionosphere. The ionosphere is used to bounce radio signals over the ...

The Sun, through its distant activity, could contribute to earthquakes. A theoretical study examines this unexpected idea. It ...

Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the crust into creating an earthquake.

Mars' ionosphere sits at the boundary between Mars' lower atmosphere and the solar wind, which floods out into space from the Sun. The solar wind also drags the solar magnetic field out into the Solar ...

A plan to use millions of smartphones to map out real-time variations in Earth’s ionosphere has been tested by researchers in the US. Developed by Brian Williams and colleagues at Google Research in ...

At the Space Weather Workshop in Boulder, Colorado, NASA-funded researchers have released to the general public a “4-D” live model of Earth’s ionosphere. Without leaving home, anyone can fly through ...

The year 1816 was a weird one, climatically speaking. Months that would normally be warm and pleasant were cold, rainy and overcast, leading to crop shortages across much of the Northern Hemisphere.