Unlike Earth’s life-sustaining blanket of air, the Moon has but a thin wisp of an atmosphere. Now, a new study using samples retrieved by the Apollo missions more than 50 years ago is helping ...

The Moon, for most intents and purposes, is naked, bare, and exposed to the vacuum of space. But Earth's satellite does indeed have a blanket of gasses; thin and tenuous, but persistent enough to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Moon has no real atmosphere, but Earth has, in a sense, been generously trying to share its own for billions of years. A new ...

The moon may not have any breathable air, but that doesn't mean it has no atmosphere. Astronomers have for decades been aware of the delicate atmosphere surrounding the moon that is so thin and ...

(CNN) — Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon for billions of years, mixing into the lunar soil, according to a new study. The ...

It's safe to assume you can't breathe on the moon. You probably already guessed that. But not only is there no breathable air ...

The puzzling behavior of Titan's atmosphere has been revealed. The team has shown that the thick, hazy atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon doesn't spin in line with its surface, but instead wobbles ...

The outermost part of our planet’s atmosphere extends well beyond the lunar orbit – almost twice the distance to the Moon. A recent discovery based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

A new study shows that an atmosphere was produced around the ancient Moon, 3 to 4 billion years ago, when intense volcanic eruptions spewed gases above the surface faster than they could escape to ...

A favorite diversion of amateur astronomers is to watch the moon eclipsing a star. When the star touches the moon’s jagged edge, it winks out all at once with no preliminaries. Even the delicate ...

As detailed in a new paper published in The Planetary Science Journal, a team of scientists analyzed 13 years’ worth of thermal infrared observations recorded by NASA and the European Space Agency’s ...