'Excess oxygen' stored in deep Earth magma may help explain how Earth's atmosphere became oxygen-rich

A research team has found that molten rock can carry more oxygen than its chemical composition would seem to allow. Their ...

Oxygen in Earth’s atmosphere may have an unexpected origin

Molten rock can absorb and transport far more oxygen than geoscientists had assumed. The discovery suggests that magma may ...
Science Daily

New data on atmosphere from Earth to the edge of space

Researchers have created a dataset of the whole atmosphere, enabling new research to be conducted on previously difficult-to-study regions. Using a new data-assimilation system called JAGUAR-DAS, ...

Earth's mantle was 'breathing' oxygen a billion years before it hit the atmosphere, mineral time capsules reveal

Why is there life on Earth? It's one of the oldest questions humans have asked, and as far as we know, our planet is the only ...
Ars Technica

The complicated history of how the Earth’s atmosphere became breathable

The Great Oxygenation Event, which occurred around 2.4 billion years ago, was one of the biggest transformations of our planet. Before it, there was practically no oxygen in the atmosphere; after, ...
Ars Technica

Want an oxygen-rich atmosphere? Stuff oxygen’s friends in the mantle.

Planet Earth has some pretty great qualities going for it. (Negative reviews mostly revolve around the staff and clientele.) Pretty high on the list of positives is a richly oxygenated atmosphere. But ...
Newsweek

Solar Flares Cause Earth’s Atmosphere to Pulse

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The sun may be 93 million miles away, but that does not stop its solar ...

When the atmosphere slows the Earth: Uncovering a subtle signal of climate change

Atmospheric circulation governs weather and climate, but it also carries angular momentum. When winds shift or mass redistributes, the atmosphere can exchange momentum with the solid Earth, slightly ...
CNN

Scientists have spotted unexpected X- and C-shaped structures in the atmosphere. They are struggling to explain them

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Important Facts About the Earth’s Atmosphere

Your every breath serves as a reminder that the atmosphere of Earth is silently carrying out its function. Since air is always present and invisible, it’s easy to take it for granted, but one of the ...
Science Daily

Webb finds a surprising atmosphere on a scorching lava world

The James Webb Space Telescope has found strong evidence that the rocky lava world HD 3167 b has an atmosphere, despite circling its star every 24 hours under extreme heat. The surprising discovery ...
SpaceNews

Extreme Exoplanet Has A Complex And Exotic Atmosphere

An international team including researchers from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva as well as the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS analyzed the atmosphere of ...