A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn’s moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover is using a new experiment to better understand the history of the Martian atmosphere by analyzing xenon. While NASA’s Curiosity rover concluded its detailed examination of the ...
While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the 1980s, astronomers have observed a very thin layer of atoms bouncing over the moon's surface. This delicate ...
An international consortium of geoscientists has reconstructed atmosphereric levels of carbon dioxide going back 66 million years using proxies in the geoloogical record. Today's concenteration, 420 ...
PART 1. THE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 RECORD -- The rise of trees and how they changed Paleozoic atmospheric CO2, climate, and geology / Robert A. Berner -- Atmospheric CO2 during the late Paleozoic and ...
The edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet, where recent melting has left bare ground. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute A massive new review of ancient atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels and ...
Scientists say they have identified the main process that formed the moon's atmosphere and continues to sustain it today. The team reports that the lunar atmosphere is primarily a product of 'impact ...