The Earth's atmosphere has strengthened its ability to remove air pollutants, including the potent climate-warming gas methane, according to research published in Nature Communications. Regarded as a ...

The moon’s atmosphere is so thin that we only discovered it in 1971—after astronauts had already been there. Ever since, scientists have been puzzling about how it got there. A team of scientists from ...

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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study indicates Earth in its infancy probably had substantial quantities of hydrogen in its atmosphere, a surprising finding that may alter the way many ...