A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn’s moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to ...
NASA’s Curiosity rover is using a new experiment to better understand the history of the Martian atmosphere by analyzing xenon. While NASA’s Curiosity rover concluded its detailed examination of the ...
An international consortium of geoscientists has reconstructed atmosphereric levels of carbon dioxide going back 66 million years using proxies in the geoloogical record. Today's concenteration, 420 ...
The edge of the Greenland Ice Sheet, where recent melting has left bare ground. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Earth Institute A massive new review of ancient atmospheric carbon-dioxide levels and ...
The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, Harvard researchers think they have a good explanation for a ...
PART 1. THE ATMOSPHERIC CO2 RECORD -- The rise of trees and how they changed Paleozoic atmospheric CO2, climate, and geology / Robert A. Berner -- Atmospheric CO2 during the late Paleozoic and ...
Scientists are steadily ruling out habitable conditions on the seven planets of the star Trappist-1. On one of the worlds, a ...