NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) discovered an unknown phenomenon from the International Space Station, 55 miles ...

STRIVE proposes to launch a satellite that takes a sideways view of Earth’s atmosphere, at what is sometimes called “Earth’s limb.” This photo of Earth’s limb was taken Feb. 12, 2020, from the ...

The powerful vision of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has allowed astronomers to study for the first time the layer-cake structure of the atmosphere of a planet orbiting another star. Hubble discovered ...

From the ISS, NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured rare purple lightning and mysterious upper-atmosphere flashes above massive ...

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory, a groundbreaking mission, is set to provide new insights into the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere, the exosphere. The mission will capture detailed ...

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 Hubble Space Telescope has detected a stratosphere, one of the primary layers of Earth’s atmosphere, on a massive and blazing-hot exoplanet known as WASP-33b. The presence of a stratosphere can ...

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected clouds made up of silicate, or sand, in the atmosphere of a nearby exoplanet, or planet outside our solar system. WASP-107b ...

On April 7, 2025, NASA scientists seized a rare opportunity to study Uranus’ atmosphere during a stellar occultation, when the planet passed between Earth and a star 400 light years away. This cosmic ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new, never-before-seen feature in Jupiter's atmosphere. The high-speed jet stream, which spans more than 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) wide, sits ...

A project led by the University of Washington to better understand our atmosphere's complexity is a finalist for NASA's next generation of Earth-observing satellites. STRIVE seeks to better understand ...