SpaceX rocket launches are punching holes in part of Earth's atmosphere, called the ionosphere, and it's a beautiful sight to behold. The holes appear as bright red blobs in the sky. Some are ...

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Learn about the force of gravity that pulls all objects towards the Earth. Day and night Learn how day and night happens every day. How do reactions power rockets? Tim Peake and Fran Scott explore ...

She points out that the rocket turns east at a certain altitude. Back in the Royal Institution lecture theatre, Dr Kevin Fong uses a student to demonstrate how the rotation of the Earth provides ...

Debris from a Chinese rocket is expected to fall back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry this weekend. The main segment from the Long March-5b vehicle was used to launch the first module of ...

The rocket's reusable first-stage booster successfully separated from the second stage and later landed back on Earth. The second stage then deployed the Dragon capsule, which went on to dock with ...

Because of its important role in the everyday function of modern society, scientists are eager to understand how disturbances in the ionosphere can impact life on Earth, and that’s why team of ...

The Long March 6A rocket launched Friday to send the Yunhai 3 Earth-observing research satellite to space. “It appears the rocket body failed shortly after releasing the Yunhai-3 payload ...

What damage do rockets inflict on the Earth’s all-too-important ionosphere? Lying at the edge of the planet’s atmosphere and outer space some 50 to 400 miles above the surface, the ionosphere ...