Each day, radio signals from key communications and navigation satellites travel freely through a layer of Earth’s atmosphere known as the ionosphere. Floating 50 to 400 miles (80 to 643 kilometers) ...

This depicts the satellite-filled sky that is now a reality and getting more crowded every week! This adds together exposures taken over just 30 minutes on an early June night when, from my latitude ...

On May 11, a gorgeous aurora surprised stargazers across the southern United States. That same weekend, a tractor guided by GPS missed its mark. What do the visibility of the northern lights have in ...

Understanding atmospheric pressure is vital, newsroom meteorologist Justin Ballard said, because those giant H’s and L’s representing high and low air pressure systems on a weather map are meaningless ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - If you feel pain when there is rain, storms, snow, etc... the air pressure may be playing a role. Barometric pressure measures the weight of the air pressing down on us. On ...

The Earth’s ionosphere protects us from harmful UV radiation, but despite the helpful protection, this slice of Earth’s atmosphere is incredibly complex. NASA’s Global-scale Observations of the Limb ...

A greater number of large “planetary sized waves” in the atmosphere that move from the lower atmosphere into the upper atmosphere were responsible for the smaller Antarctic ozone hole this fall, ...