Every few days now, a giant rocket blasts a fiery trail through the atmosphere, lofting satellites into orbit, carrying out ...

These rockets will be part of the Army's efforts to study the behavior of projectiles in the sub-stratosphere, it was revealed. The test, scheduled for December 17th at White Sands Proving Grounds ...

On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger stood at the edge of his balloon's gondola, 19 and a half miles above the Earth's surface, and leapt out into the near vacuum of the stratosphere. Almost 14 ...

SpaceX's latest Starship flight test explosion raises concerns about space junk affecting Earth's stratosphere and ozone ...

Following SpaceX’s Starship explosion, the issue of space debris emerges as a significant environmental concern. Here’s what ...

The rocket's upper stage blew up at an altitude of around 90 ... With that the amount of alumina released into the mesosphere and upper stratosphere — the otherwise pristine middle layers of the ...

When satellites vaporise, they seed the stratosphere (the region of the atmosphere between 10km and 50km above Earth’s surface) with particles of constituent metals, including aluminium ...

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 ...