The moon's thin atmosphere, called an exosphere, has been a puzzle to science for some time. Two main processes were thought to create this wispy gas envelope; tiny meteoroids hitting the surface and ...

Extreme climate conditions and poor land-use management blight the semi-arid steppe regions of Asia, where some of the world’s largest grain exporters are located in the region. Kazakhstan, the ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Dust particles may be small, but they can prove to be mighty costly to not only residents, but the economy as well. A new study published in the journal Nature ...

Trace chemicals ejected from the Sun and collected by NASA’s Genesis mission have solved a long-standing lunar mystery that threatened to rewrite our understanding of how the Sun evolved. For the last ...

After several years of service under harsh weather conditions, the rotor blades of offshore wind parks are subjected to degradation and surface erosion, releasing sizeable quantities of particle ...

The solar wind is a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system. First proposed in the 1950s by University of Chicago ...