It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

Greg Foot discovers why the sky is blue. He explains that outside the Earth’s atmosphere space looks black, but from the Earth’s surface the sky looks blue. He investigates this effect by ...

Scientists have always been curious about the atmosphere surrounding us, but in the past, they could not just hop on a spaceship to see what was up there. Instead, scientists hiked up high ...

"The moon flies through Earth's atmosphere," Igor Baliukin, a space physicist at Russia's Space Research Institute in Moscow, said in a European Space Agency (ESA) press release. "We were not ...

Unlike the Earth, the Moon has no atmosphere and this is why the Moon has a history of more numerous impacts. Students could perform simple experiments using ball bearings and a tray of sand to ...