Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

A layer of charged particles, called the ionosphere, surrounds Earth, extending from about 50 to 400 miles above the surface of the planet. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

Many human activities release polluting gases into the atmosphere ... The Earth has a layered structure made up of the crust, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core. These layers each ...

and lower thermospheric layer (about 90-110 km above Earth's surface) of the atmosphere, including the ignorosphere," explained Professor Kaoru Sato from the University of Tokyo. "If we can better ...

and lower thermospheric layer (about 90–110 km above Earth's surface) of the atmosphere, including the ignorosphere," explained Professor Kaoru Sato from the University of Tokyo. "If we can ...