A severe winter storm that brought freezing rain, sleet and snow to a large part of the U.S. was intensified by the polar ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

The outermost part of our planet’s atmosphere extends well beyond the lunar orbit – almost twice the distance to the Moon. A recent discovery based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

thermal characteristics (temperature changes), chemical composition, movement, and density. Each of the layers are bounded by "pauses" where the greatest changes in thermal characteristics, chemical ...

(CNN) — Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study. The ...

A study from an international team led by researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the University of New Hampshire in the United States has revealed the importance of the Earth’s upper ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a long-standing astronomy puzzle.

GAPMAP-0’s data scenes across four regions of the globe. Each scene is identified with the specific region on a map and the corresponding capture time. Credit: Grasp BALTIMORE – Grasp Global’s ...

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth was a tropical greenhouse. Today, it's an ice-capped world. And an international team of ...