In about a billion years, Earth will lose its oxygen, making it uninhabitable for life forms that depend on oxygen. The ...

Without a magnetic field to protect it, the moon could have picked up ions from Earth's atmosphere 4.36 billion years ago. "One of the mysteries about Earth and Earth's evolution is really what ...

Without the Earth's atmosphere to filter the sunlight, the side of the suit facing the Sun may be heated to a temperature as high as 250 degrees Fahrenheit; the other side, exposed to darkness of ...

The atmosphere interacts closely with the rest of the Earth system – including the biosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and lithosphere – as well as with urban areas and societies on time scales from ...

but we wouldn’t last very long without it! Our planet is surrounded by an invisible shell of air, called the atmosphere, held in place by the Earth’s gravitational field. It’s made up of a ...