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 ...

Earth's atmosphere is much more sensitive to ripples of radiation from the sun than scientists previously believed, new ...

The first bits of data have come back from the trio of small satellites that make up NASA's EZIE (Electrojet Zeeman Imaging ...

In this diagram, the red lines represent the edges of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth's crust. For example, iron is mined from the Earth's crust in quarries. It is a finite resource ...

"The moon flies through Earth's atmosphere," Igor Baliukin, a space physicist at Russia's Space Research Institute in Moscow, said in a European Space Agency (ESA) press release. "We were not ...