The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's ...

Salt crystals formed when a saline lake dried up 1.4 billion years ago trapped air inside, providing a sample of the ...

This means that the lunar regolith could still hold a very long-term record of Earth's atmospheric history, which in turn ...

More than a billion years ago, in a shallow basin across what is now northern Ontario, a subtropical lake much like ...

In 2005, researchers at the University of Tokyo proposed that some elements from Earth's upper atmosphere might have escaped ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric ...

TRAPPIST-1e, an Earth-sized world in the system’s habitable zone, is drawing scientific attention as researchers hunt for ...

"We reported hints of methane, but the question is, 'is the methane attributable to molecules in the atmosphere of the planet or in the host star?'" ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

NASA’s Carruthers mission will film Earth’s elusive exosphere to understand space weather, atmospheric escape, and planetary habitability. A NASA mission aims to photograph a feature of Earth that is ...

Today, oceans cover about 70% of Earth’s surface. This stark contrast has long driven scientific interest in how water ...

Webb Telescope detects an atmosphere on TOI-561 b, a scorching rocky planet once thought too small and hot to hold onto its ...