New research shows iodine in Earth’s early atmosphere delayed the ozone layer’s stabilization, affecting life evolution.

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

If you like the smell of spring roses, the sounds of summer bird song, and the colors of fall foliage, you have the ...

Laid down over millions of years, these rock layers contain a permanent record ... Some three billion years ago, the Earth's atmosphere was virtually devoid of oxygen. At about 2.4 billion years ...

The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica only grew to 22 million square kilometres this year, the smallest observed since ...

But doing so deposits satellite ash in the middle layers of Earth’s atmosphere. This metallic ash can harm the atmosphere and potentially alter the climate. Scientists don’t yet know how ...

The ozone layer above the Antarctic may be healing at last, according to a promising new study. The Copernicus Atmospheric Monitoring Service (CAMS) found that the hole above the South Pole closed ...

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, ...

Experts believe it can persist in the atmosphere for decades and cause "significant depletion of the ozone layer," which plays a crucial role in life on Earth by absorbing harmful ultraviolet ...