The Aerostar Thunderhead balloon carries the STRATO payload into the sky to reach the stratosphere for flight testing ...

The polar vortex is known for bringing chilly temperatures during winter. Will it affect Rochester this season?

Those who believed that this innovative company would skyrocket into the stratosphere have been sorely disappointed so far.

Coghlan, who has a roughly 28 minute 10K best time from back in the day, plans to walk and jog the high altitude in "under an hour ... I want to soak up the atmosphere and also focus on the meaning ...

Once at sufficient altitude, the SABRE engine switches to rocket mode and ... a dual-mode rocket could efficiently transition ...

Some 80% of weather radiosondes—remote measurement instruments containing plastic, batteries and electronic parts—end up lost ...

The festive season is one of the most popular times of year for ski holidays – while the Christmas period is brimming with ...

The Sun’s activity is what gives us beautiful auroras – but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

Gravity waves in the atmosphere are a common phenomenon. NASA released a beautiful image of waves forming around an island two years ago, for example. They are also not exclusively an Earthly ...

NASA says its Atmospheric Waves Instrument (AWE) recorded a series of intense gravity waves at high altitudes during ...

The strongest storm system of the season has now entirely moved to the northeast of The Great Lakes region as much more pleasant weather is ahead in our region with more ...

The ozone layer sits toward the bottom of the stratosphere, roughly 20 to 40 kilometers (66,000 and 131,000 feet) above the ...