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 ...

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 ...

New satellite launched by ESA uses Infrared Sounder instrument to form the most detailed map of Earth's atmosphere.

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

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 ...

The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While ...

A nearly 60 meter Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid, 2024 YR4 was spotted in 2024 whose path crosses both Earth’s and the Moon ...

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

NASA scientists unearthed a new exoplanet, dubbed the 'cold Earth,' from retired Kepler telescope data. This Earth-sized world, HD 137010 b, orbits a distant star and, despite frigid temperatures, may ...

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 ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along ...