With HiT&MiS deployed in Sweden, physics Ph.D. student Charmi Patel '24 will use it to monitor the northern lights, as seen ...

Credit: Roberto Machado Noa/Moment via The past few centuries have yielded an abundance of information about Earth's atmosphere, from the weather that manifests in the troposphere and ...

The creation of the belts, and others like it in the future, are a potential new danger to astronauts and satellites headed ...

The Exo-Brake will create drag by interacting with the thermosphere, a region of Earth’s atmosphere about 50 and 440 miles (80 and 700 kilometers) above the surface, causing the spacecraft’s altitude ...

Near space is the region of Earth's atmosphere between 20 and 100 kilometers above sea level, encompassing portions of the stratosphere, mesosphere and lower thermosphere. It is above the top ...

Near space is the region of Earth's atmosphere between 20 and 100 kilometers above sea level, encompassing portions of the stratosphere, mesosphere and lower thermosphere. It is above the top ...

This encompasses the interactions between various parts of the atmosphere as well as interactions with the oceans and freshwater systems, the biosphere and human activities. This paper identifies ...

Auroras occur when solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field.The charged particles from the sun collide with gases in the upper atmosphere, such as oxygen and nitrogen, transferring energy ...

Feb. 3, 2025 — A recent study has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting that the climate effects of new particles in urban areas have been significantly ...

The AQI is measured on a scale from 0 to 500, with the lower the number, the healthier the air. (Getty Creative) ...

Fewer aerosol particles in the atmosphere lead to reduced cloud cover, weakening clouds’ ability to reflect solar radiation back into space. The study suggests that future policy decisions on rapid ...