When an earthquake strikes, most of us imagine shaking buildings, cracked roads, and frightened people running for safety.

Each day, radio signals from key communications and navigation satellites travel freely through a layer of Earth’s atmosphere known as the ionosphere. Floating 50 to 400 miles (80 to 643 ...

The study unveils how seismic activity generates complex sound waves in the ionosphere, disrupting satellite communications ...

Earthquakes create ripple effects in Earth's upper atmosphere that can disrupt satellite communications and navigation ...

"We've been able to show, for the very first time, that the sun's flare pulsations and Earth's atmosphere were pulsing in ...

A plan to use millions of smartphones to map out real-time variations in Earth’s ionosphere has been tested by researchers in the US. Developed by Brian Williams and colleagues at Google Research in ...

In November 2023, SpaceX's colossal Starship, owned by Musk, took off for its second test flight. Instead of breaking records, it appears to have altered the sky. Researchers say the launch's intense ...

That region of the Earth’s atmosphere called the ionosphere can contain varying levels of free electrons that, when highly concentrated, can slow down GPS signals traveling between satellites ...