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

The Moon is a pretty peculiar object. It is believed that it formed from the incredible collision between the proto-Earth and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years. A new ...

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

Old satellites and other space junk fall toward Earth every day, and the shock waves they create could be used to track their trajectories, according to new research.

The sun may be 93 million miles away, but that does not stop its solar activity from affecting the Earth's atmosphere, a new study from Queen's University Belfast as found. The Earth's atmosphere is ...

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

The oxygen in Earth's atmosphere is key to making ours the only planet known to harbor life, but this precious resource is in limited supply. Although it is the best-known component of the air we ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

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

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...