The International Space Station has captured a photo of what in known as "Earth's tallest lightning". This form of lighting, ...

Callisto, the third largest moon in the entire solar system, orbits Jupiter from about 1.2 million miles away. The rocky ...

NASA’s MAVEN Mars Orbiter Will Help Understand Radio Interference On Earth. MAVEN studied ionosphere of the Red Planet and discovered the phenomena known as ‘sporadic E layers ...

The Ionosphere Monitoring and Prediction Center (IMPC) is based at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation in ...

Millions of tiny objects, invisible to the current tracking systems, are hurtling through orbit at incredible speeds of about 17,500 mph.

More information: Jamie Smith et al, Mapping the ionosphere with millions of phones, Nature (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-08072-x Provided by Nature Publishing Group ...

More pocked with craters than any other object in our solar system, Jupiter's outermost and second-biggest Galilean moon, ...

SpaceX rocket launches are punching holes in part of Earth's atmosphere, called the ionosphere, and it's a beautiful sight to behold. The holes appear as bright red blobs in the sky. Some are ...

The presence of an ocean leaves open the possibility that it could host life. Another nearby moon, Europa, is also considered ...

The earth hums with a quiet, rhythmic beat somewhere between the heavens and the ground beneath our feet. It is an ...

West Virginia Wesleyan College’s Space Club will travel to Norway in November for a sounding rocket launch that will send ...

Callisto, one of Jupiter’s largest moons, looks like a boring, crater-filled world. It doesn’t seem to have much going on ...