For decades, satellites passing over Earth's north and south poles have experienced a flow of ions from the upper atmosphere into space. Dubbed the 'polar wind', the source of this flow had eluded ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

NASA has turned its attention to a ghostly shroud of hydrogen that stretches far beyond the familiar blue edge of our planet, ...

Scientists are observing an Earth-like exoplanet that may contain water using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the space agency said in a news release. The exoplanet, known as TRAPPIST-1 e, orbits ...

Following the 3,000 th orbit of NASA’s AWE (Atmospheric Waves Experiment) aboard the International Space Station, researchers publicly released the mission’s first trove of scientific data, crucial to ...

NASA's NEOWISE spacecraft is about to return to Earth in a blaze of glory after 15 years of service. The NEOWISE (Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission has been using a space ...

The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years.

NASA confirmed Wednesday that a fireball streaking across the sky with an explosive boom above New York City and was a one-foot-diameter meteor that disintegrated in Earth’s atmosphere. The meteor was ...

It's actually good news that NASA spotted a sizable asteroid with a (small) chance of hitting Earth in 2032. It means our asteroid-sleuthing telescopes are working. "These things come through on a ...

NASA has released a new visualization that shows copious amounts of carbon dioxide wafting off the Earth and swirling through the atmosphere. The video shows how concentrations of the gas move across ...