It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

This puts Earth in a so-called "Goldilocks zone," where the temperature is just right for liquid water to exist on the surface. Our planet's atmosphere is mostly made of nitrogen. The next biggest ...

"The moon flies through Earth's atmosphere," Igor Baliukin, a space physicist at Russia's Space Research Institute in Moscow, said in a European Space Agency (ESA) press release. "We were not ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Earth in the Sun's Atmosphere ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 201 No. 4 (October 1959), p. 64 doi:10.1038 ...

then the convection zone, followed by the chromosphere and its corona. But the Sun doesn't really end there. The Sun holds onto its atmosphere, just like the Earth, and it's a whopper.

Fossils Life processes can change the composition of the atmosphere. Fossils can tell scientists what living things were around at different times in Earth’s history. Evidence of early plants ...

Many human activities release polluting gases into the atmosphere, such as farming animals for food, burning fossil fuels and deforestation. Resources from the Earth Human activities use resources ...

The atmosphere interacts closely with the rest of the Earth system – including the biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and lithosphere – as well as with urban areas and societies on time scales from ...

The findings, based on long-term atmospheric data, offer a fresh perspective on the behaviors of Mars' middle atmosphere, highlighting fundamental differences from Earth's. The study applied ...