One of the three rockets for the TOMEX+ mission sits on a launcher at Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Photo by Danielle Johnson/NASA Aug. 20 (UPI) --NASA is planning to launch TOMEX+ rocket ...

This artist’s impression shows multiple small devices soaring on sunlight at the edges of Earth’s atmosphere. Scientists have devised tiny featherweight disks that could float on sunlight in Earth’s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you're in the northern hemisphere and it's been a clear ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise this week announced an agreement with container management platform startup Mesophere to resell the smaller company’s flagship product, a data center operating system dubbed ...

Noctilucent clouds are the rarest clouds in the world, but experts say in recent years they've made a better showing, and skywatchers in the Pacific Northwest have been treated to spectacular displays ...

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 ...

When you look at photographs of Earth from space, the planet looks like a blue marble, with patterns of clouds lying on the surface of the marble. It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, ...

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 ...