PHASA-35, built by British company BAE Systems, is a 150kg solar-electric aircraft that can quietly cruise through the stratosphere for months at a time. Named after its 35-metre wingspan ...

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 the early days of rock legend that was Lemmy, he started out in a band who had one particular song that launched him into ...

January 2025 has been the coldest since 2018 and the fourth-coldest since the turn of the century. It looks like it could get ...

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 ...

A team of researchers has found pollutant metals in Earth's stratosphere — the second layer of our atmosphere — and traced them back to rockets and satellites. "There are so many rockets going ...

“The Republican tax plan is to double down on Trump’s handouts to corporations and the wealthy, run the deficit into the stratosphere, and make it impossible to save Medicare and Social ...

If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer birdsong, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the stabilization of the ozone layer to thank for it. Located in the stratosphere, where ...

These severe cold events occur when the polar jet stream – the familiar jet stream of winter that runs along the boundary ...

Thanks to these studies, we now know the five layers of the atmosphere are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere (see graphic). Together, these layers protect us ...

flying a hot-air balloon up to the stratosphere. The 67-year-old Russian Orthodox priest has conquered the North and South Poles, scaled Mount Everest twice, rowed across the Atlantic and Pacific ...

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 ...