There’s chaos in the night sky, about 60 to 600 miles above Earth’s surface. Called the ionosphere, this layer of Earth’s atmosphere is blasted by solar radiation that breaks down the bonds of ions.

A new data source to help scientists better understand the ionosphere and its potential impact on communications and positioning, navigation, and timing–an essential utility for many critical ...

The ionosphere stretches from 50 to 400 miles above the planet and marks the boundary between our planet’s atmosphere and outer space. While it houses most satellites orbiting the Earth, it’s ...

Figure showing that the dark matter waves (in red) drive the ionosphere's plasma to produce photons (in green) which propagate down (to the left) to the Earth's surface. Credit: Physical Review ...

In 2019, NASA’s ICON mission sent a 600-pound toddler-sized spacecraft 360 miles off the ground and into the ionosphere, the poorly understood uppermost stratum of the atmosphere. ICON beamed back a ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, October 16 at 11am for the talk "Plasma Bubbles in the Earth's Ionosphere: Theory and Observations" by Giorgio Picanco of ...

Earth, it turns out, is far from naked in space. New measurements reveal that our planet sits inside a faint but global ...

Mysterious dark matter could slosh over our planet like a wave. If it does, it may produce telltale radio waves in Earth's atmosphere, new theoretical research suggests. When you purchase through ...

NASA's GOLD mission found unexpected X- and C-shaped structures in the plasma of Earth's ionosphere. Researchers have likened our upper atmosphere to "alphabet soup." When you purchase through links ...

The direct effect of a large solar flare is not the spectacular luminous auroras, but rather, silence on the airwaves. As the sunspot region 4366 swung into a more Earth-facing position, it generated ...

The Program of the Antarctic SyowaMesosphere-Stratosphere-Troposphere/Incoherent Scatter radar (PANSYradar) consisting of an active phased array of 1045 Yagi antennas ...