Astronomers now say the moon is eating up molecules from Earth’s atmosphere

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...
Live Science on MSN

The moon has been secretly feasting on Earth's atmosphere for billions of years

A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

How astronomers plan to detect the signatures of alien life in the atmospheres of distant planets

We live in a very exciting time: answers to some of the oldest questions humanity has conceived are within our grasp. One of ...

Webb Telescope Spots “Impossible” Atmosphere Around Ancient Super-Earth

JWST observations of the ultra-hot super-Earth exoplanet TOI-561 b provide the strongest evidence to date for an atmosphere ...
PRIMETIMER

New observations confirm atmosphere on ultra-hot super-Earth TOI-561 b

The new data confirm that TOI-561 b maintains a substantial atmosphere despite its extreme heat. Astronomers from the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., reported that TOI-561 b has ...
CU Boulder News & Events

But how’s the atmosphere there?

In newly published research, CU Boulder scientists study a rocky exoplanet outside our solar system, learning more about whether and how planets maintain atmospheres In June 2019, Harvard ...
Futurism

DARPA Tried Using the Earth’s Atmosphere as a Giant Sensor and Detected Something Interesting

While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth’s atmosphere as a massive sensor, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made a highly unusual detection. The ...
Ars Technica

Meteorites give the Moon its extremely thin atmosphere

The Moon may not have much of an atmosphere, mostly because of its weak gravitational field (whether it had a substantial atmosphere billions of years ago is debatable). But it is thought to presently ...