Can I see the aurora borealis in Wisconsin this weekend?
Time lapse video: Northern lights near Milwaukee, Wisconsin See a time lapse video of the northern lights dance…
Healing Ozone Layer Could Trigger 40% More Global Warming
Healing the ozone layer protects us from UV rays, but it may also fuel far more global warming…
Auroras from space? NASA astronaut captures southern lights from ISS
Zena Cardman recently caught a glimpse of some auroras aboard the International Space Station and was kind enough…
These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone
Devices (artist’s illustration) kept aloft by sunlight could take sensors into an understudied layer of the atmosphere.Credit: Schafer…
Scientists Unveil Wild New Way to Explore the Edge of Space
Scientists often refer to the mesosphere as the “ignorosphere”—a region that’s too high for planes or weather balloons…
How Does Lightning Start? New Research Provides a Groundbreaking Theory
Lightning has long terrified and fascinated scientists and non-scientists alike. For something so relatively common, the precise atmospheric…