A massive, bow-shaped wave was spotted for the first time in the highest regions of Venus’ atmosphere, perplexing astronomers. The structure was captured by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency ...
NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) discovered an unknown phenomenon from the International Space Station, 55 miles ...
Atmospheric gravity waves drive winds, temperature and chemical composition in the middle and upper atmosphere, but not enough is known about those that occur at higher altitudes. Now though, an ...
A long stretch of humid heat followed by intense thunderstorms is a weather pattern historically seen mostly in and around ...
Venus is covered by a dense layer of clouds which does not display any noteworthy characteristic. However, when looked in the ultraviolet wavelength, it presents conspicuous dark structures. However, ...
In December 2015, Japan’s Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter finally started beaming back images of Venus. Its epic journey included wandering off course around the sun for half a decade before entering ...
It was the eclipse felt ‘round the world. The August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse that crossed the United States launched a wave in the upper atmosphere that was detected nearly an hour later from ...
Just as waves ripple across a pond when a tossed stone disturbs the water's surface, gravity waves ripple toward space from disturbances in the lower atmosphere. Just as waves ripple across a pond ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. For the first time, a certain type of solar wave was caught surfing from the sun's surface up ...
It took the Japanese atmospheric probe Akatsuki a while, but once it got into orbit around Venus just over a year ago, it immediately spotted a large, bow-shaped disturbance. Researchers now believe ...