The stratosphere is the atmospheric layer extending from 10 km to about 50 km in altitude above the Earth's surface. Below this is the troposphere, which is in contact with the oceans and ...

The traditional view of the atmosphere holds that the troposphere, which extends from the Earth's surface to an altitude of about 10 km, is the main 'weather layer'. However, in recent years ...

South Milwaukee Middle School students are working on a project that will be launched by NASA through its TechRise Student ...

To this end, Loon used NOAA-provided wind data for the stratosphere (starting between 10 and 20 km altitude). Each balloon would be directed to a layer where the air current was headed in the ...

In January more than 100 communications satellites burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, vaporising as they crashed towards the planet at about eight kilometres a second. These spectacular exits are ...

Stratosphere-compatible high-altitude aircraft, also known as Uncrewed High-Altitude Platforms (HAPs), are attracting increasing interest in research and industry due to their wide range of potential ...

NAGOYA—A balloon launched by high school students soared into the stratosphere and captured our blue, round planet on cameras from an altitude of about 28 kilometers. Members of the astronomy ...

Swiss firm Meteomatics unveils the Meteoglider a new way to collect high-altitude weather data with an ultra-light GPS-guided ...