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 ...

The moon, framed by ashes from the Mount Sinabung volcano, is seen during the peak of the penumbral eclipse from Karo in North Sumatra province on August 8, 2017. The phenomenon occurs when the moon ...

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 research shows that our Moon once had an atmosphere 3 to 4 billion years ago. It formed when volcanic eruptions rocked the ancient satellite, propelling gases above its surface too rapidly for ...

The moon’s surface has long been considered barren, but new research published in Communications Earth & Environment suggests that it could hold more potential than we thought for supporting human ...

Thanks to the fact that it never leaves Earth's side, the Moon has been the subject of scientific curiosity and study for thousands of years, but even so, we're still learning new things about it. Now ...

The Moon is one of the most charming objects in the night sky, casting its beautiful white light on the Earth. It is also its only natural satellite o.

The Moon has been through some rough times. Just a few hundred million years after its formation, it experienced what astronomers like to call the period of Late Heavy Bombardment. During this time — ...

The Cassini spacecraft, which has been unveiling the secrets of Saturn’s giant moon Titan, has found an atmosphere on a second moon circling the ringed planet. The discovery of an atmosphere around ...

Artist\'s conception of the moon about three and a half billion years ago with volcanic activity feeding an atmosphere. From about 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago, just a few hundred million years after ...

Earth's moon doesn't have much of an atmosphere today. However, it may have had a more prominent atmosphere 3 billion to 4 billion years ago, when volcanic eruptions spewed giant clouds of gas above ...