Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

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The process, which existed for billions of years, would eventually turn lunar soil into a long-running archive of Earth's ...

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SAN FRANCISCO — Particles blasted from the sun probably spring leaks in the lower Martian atmosphere, new research suggests. NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN probe, or MAVEN, has detected ...

New research shows that wind carries microplastics from wastewater at far higher levels than scientists initially thought. As the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering rep orted, the microplastics ...

From the Sun to the edge of the solar system -- and back At the crux of the story are energetic neutral atoms -- high-energy particles produced at the very edge of our solar system. As the solar wind ...

A NASA mission has observed an interplanetary shock produced by the sun and taken high-resolution measurements of the phenomena for the first time. This shock is the result of streams of charged ...

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