Just Wow.” NASA astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers wrote in simple words to accompany a photo from the International Space ...

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station has shared a striking photo of what is known as a Transient Luminous ...

A NASA astronaut aboard the International Space Station has captured a photo of a rare type of upper-atmospheric lightning ...

In early July 2025, an extraordinary event in Earth’s upper atmosphere was photographed by astronauts aboard the ...

Why Earth's atmosphere appears to glow gold in new NASA photo Though we can't always see it, the optical phenomenon is constantly shining throughout Earth's atmosphere. By Ariana Garcia ...

The hazy atmosphere of Pluto, backlit by the sun, is seen in this breathtaking farewell photo taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 15, 2015 just after its historic flyby of the dwarf ...

To shed the extra energy, the molecules release photons, or light particles, which together, create a dim, colorful glow in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, called the ionosphere. Airglow isn’t ...

Turbulence in Earth's upper atmosphere has always been a limiting factor when studying the sun, but Cona increases the resolution of what can be observed, from features over 620 miles (1,000 ...

Debris from rockets and satellites can fall back to Earth or collide with other objects, and wreckage that burns up can harm ...

'Space hurricane' in Earth's upper atmosphere discovered. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2021 / 03 / 210302130705.htm. University of Reading.

The first photo of Earth taken from outer space, October 24, 1946. More than a decade before the launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, scientists at the White Sands Missile Range in ...