WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A Purdue University team of scientists upended a long-held assumption about how plant volatile compounds, the chemicals that are responsible for scent, move to the outside of ...

Particles from Earth’s atmosphere may be preserved in the Moon's soil, offering a long-term record of Earth’s atmospheric ...

Consider a magma with bulk density ρ in a chamber of volume V undergoing a mass recharge rate Q i and eruption rate Q 0, as sketched in Fig. 1. Conservation of mass indicates that: where Q = Q i - Q 0 ...

The moon has both a South and North Pole, but just how cold are they? For context, Antarctica's coastal temperatures average around 14°F (-10°C), while the interior drops to -76°F (-60°C), making ...

Volatile mystery The rocky planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. (Courtesy: NASA) Planetary scientists in France have reviewed and analysed recent research on the origins of “volatile” elements in ...

"What we need is definitive measurements of the ice content." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Earth's moon is a treasure trove of ...

(This article forms a part of the Science for All newsletter that takes the jargon out of science and puts the fun in! Subscribe now!) Volatiles are elements or compounds that change from solid or ...

NASA's set to leverage the AI revolution for its upcoming Artemis missions. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As NASA's second ...