Forming 50 miles above Earth's surface, noctilucent clouds offer a rare glimpse into one of the least-understood layers of ...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have made “microfliers” that could fly into near space on just the power of light. These tiny fliers may be the key to unlocking the mesosphere, the area ...

Flying high Artist’s impression of the photophoretic flyers in the mesosphere. (Courtesy: Ben Schafer and Jong-hyoung Kim) Small levitating platforms that can stay airborne indefinitely at very high ...

When the two microflyers twirled around eachother midair, the researchers dubbed the maneuver "The Tango." Courtesy of Mohsen Azadi / Science Advances Researchers have created tiny disks out of mylar ...

Scientists have been scratching their heads over late blossoming cloud formations which were seen in the mesosphere – the region in the Earth’s atmosphere between 50 and 80 kilometres above the ...

Bob Dylan wasn’t singing about upper atmospheric dynamics when he wrote the song, but scientists at the South Pole agree that the answer is indeed blowing in the wind. The group is studying meteoroid ...