earth atmosphere

A New Way to Detect Rocky Exoplanet Atmospheres

The total number of exoplanets discovered to date totals 5,288. Among them are a host of rocky, Earth-like exoplanets but…

1 month ago

What Happens to the Climate When Earth Passes Through Interstellar Clouds?

Noctilucent clouds were once thought to be a fairly modern phenomenon. A team of researcher have recently calculated that Earth…

2 months ago

Mysterious Flashes Coming From Earth That Puzzled Carl Sagan Finally Have An Explanation

NASA's EPIC camera aboard NOAA's DSCOVR spacecraft solves decades old mystery that stymied Carl Sagan. Mysterious flashes are mysterious no…

8 years ago

Ancient Zircons Help Reveal Early Earth Atmosphere

[/caption] Roughly 2.4 billion years ago, Earth's atmosphere underwent a huge change known as the "Great Oxidation Event". This switch…

13 years ago

Exosphere

[/caption] The Earth's atmosphere is broken up into several distinct layers. We live down in the troposphere, where the atmosphere…

15 years ago