The NEO Surveyor fulfills a 2005 act of Congress ordering NASA to catalog 90% of near-Earth objects larger than 459 feet (140 ...

US President Donald Trump talked about it in his inauguration speech this year. Such an epic endeavor could help to answer ...

While we go about our days the Earth is constantly rotating through its own magnetic field. Now, experts claim it is possible ...

The Kennedy College of Sciences, Department of Earth, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences, invites you to attend a Master's Thesis Defense by Matthew Witscheber on "Sediment and Cation Composition ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

Explore the wonders of red sprites captured over a thunderstorm in Tibet. Understand their significance in atmospheric ...

Here’s why and how the moon can look yellow, orange or red without an eclipse and when Friday's total lunar eclipse blood ...

When higher atmospheric layers remain dense enough ... They then used these models to estimate the “satellite carrying capacity” of low-Earth orbit – a concept borrowed from ecology, referring to the ...

The consequences of the sheer volume of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions on low Earth orbit has not been explored in detail. We know that these gases cause the shrinking of the thermosphere – the ...

CFCs, while banned, persist in the atmosphere. CO2 emissions continue ... allowing more UV radiation to penetrate Earth’s surface. The ozone layer remains a critical shield protecting life ...

Unlike usual lightning, the charge proceeds upwards, the result of a layer of negative charge above. The color occurs as the charge meets nitrogen in the Earth's atmosphere. While we have a ...

An atmospheric layer of special interest is the thermosphere ... in order to estimate the "satellite carrying capacity" of low-Earth orbit. These simulations predict that by the year 2100 ...