Chinese radar detects an ionospheric "plasma bubbles" over Egypt from Hainan, revealing key advances in global monitoring of ...

If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there. Enter M-MATISSE, a potential precursor to a crewed mission to the Red Planet.

The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...

The Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer (EZIE) mission aims to map auroral electrojets, improving scientific models of space ...

There are huge, invisible structures in the ionosphere that are high above the surface of the Earth. These structures are ...

On November 13, 2020, a pair of European Space Agency spacecraft—Mars Express and the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter—set out to gain a deeper understanding of the Martian ionosphere. Utilizing an advanced ...

Between 50 and 1,000 kilometers above our heads is the ionosphere, a layer of Earth's upper atmosphere consisting of charged particles: ions (atoms that have gained or lost a negatively charged ...

NASA is embarking on the Sporadic-E ElectroDynamics (SEED) mission, launching rockets from Kwajalein Atoll to investigate unpredictable Sporadic-E layers in the ionosphere. These layers disrupt ...

NASA’s GOLD mission has made a discovery that is changing how scientists understand Earth’s upper atmosphere. For the first time ever, GOLD has seen X-shaped patterns in the ionosphere—a ...

Scientists are hoping to understand the Sporadic-E layers that form in the lower portions of ionosphere, causing radio signals to reflect to Earth.

Sporadic E layer, as the name suggests, is a phenomenon in which thin—about 1-5 km thick—but dense patches of ionized metals suddenly appear in the E layer of the ionosphere.

The ionosphere is a layer of Earth's atmosphere situated between about 37 miles and 620 miles (60 km to 1000 km) in altitude. It is particularly rich in ionized particles, meaning atoms and molecules ...