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A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

New research reveals the Moon may have been silently collecting Earth’s atmosphere for billions of years. Scientists now ...

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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Grab-and-go missions to asteroids have provided some of the most scientifically valuable samples since the Apollo ...

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Using primitive meteorites called chondrites as their models, earth and planetary scientists at Washington University in St. Louis have performed outgassing calculations and shown that the early Earth ...

Earth TOI-561 b must have a thick atmosphere, data from the JWST indicates, or its day side would be even hotter than it is.

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

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