To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...

The beauty of a sunset is universal, it captivates those on Earth, painting the sky with brilliant colors. But what if you ...

When a solar storm strikes Earth, it can disrupt technology that's vital for our daily lives. Solar storms occur when ...

An atmospheric study reveals unexpected findings about our largest neighboring planet and the structure of its deep atmosphere.

When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as Feb. 6, they’ll climb aboard NASA’s 16.5-foot-wide ...

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

(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 ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of ...

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 ...

The last time someone photographed the exosphere, the outermost layer of Earth’s atmosphere separating it from outer space, was in the 1970s from the surface of the Moon. This is a problem for two ...