Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the three rockets for the TOMEX+ mission sits on a launcher at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Photo by Danielle ...

After more than 15 years of studying the rarest and highest clouds in our planet's atmosphere, NASA's Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, mission has come to a close. The space agency announced ...

New analysis of a volcanic eruption off the coast of Tonga earlier this year has revealed the true extent of the massive explosion, and established its plume as the highest on record. It is also the ...

Every January, the American Space Agency awards Phase I grants in something it calls the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. It’s a recurrent effort to award the best ideas for the ...

Aug. 20 (UPI) --NASA is planning to launch TOMEX+ rocket mission to study the turbulence where Earth's atmosphere ends and outer space begins sometime over the next two weeks. The earliest the agency ...

Bob Dylan wasn’t singing about upper atmospheric dynamics when he wrote the song, but scientists at the South Pole agree that the answer is indeed blowing in the wind. The group is studying meteoroid ...