The Moon is a pretty peculiar object. It is believed that it formed from the incredible collision between the proto-Earth and ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

A new study suggests lunar soil contains elements that solar wind transported to the moon from Earth’s atmosphere, solving a ...

The moon’s thin atmosphere contains neon, a gas commonly used in electric signs on Earth because of its intense glow. While scientists have speculated on the presence of neon in the lunar atmosphere ...

The small traces of gas that form the atmosphere of our moon may have come from meteorites hitting its pockmarked surface. The exact origins of the moon's extremely thin atmosphere—known as an ...

The dense atmosphere roiling on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may come from organic material baking in the moon's interior. Titan fascinates scientists because of its thick atmosphere — which is ...

When you learn about the moon in school, you’re generally taught that its gravity is insufficient to capture and retain any significant atmosphere. The moon is nonetheless surrounded by a thin, ...

WASHINGTON Reuters) - The NASA astronauts who became the first people to land on the moon's surface in the 1960s and 1970s also discovered a previously unknown lunar characteristic - it has an ...

A groundbreaking study using Apollo 16 lunar samples has challenged long-held assumptions about the source of the Moon’s delicate atmosphere. Contrary to the belief that the solar wind plays a ...

Moon Dust: Unlike Earth and other major celestial bodies in the solar system, the Moon doesn't have a significant atmosphere or magnetic field. However, Earth's satellite has a very thin layer of dust ...

The main objective of Chandrayaan-2 mission was to demonstrate ISRO's capability to make a soft landing on the moon.[PTI, file] India’s second mission to the Moon orbiter has made new observations ...