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 ...

NASA's Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) mission has discovered unexpected X and C-shaped structures within Earth's ionosphere, a critical layer for radio communication.

A Falcon 9 rocket launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX earlier this month has made a temporary hole in Earth's ionosphere, American space physicist Jeff Baumgardner has claimed. Falcon 9, a reusable two ...