A new study reveals that tiny fragments of Earth's atmosphere are transported to and absorbed by the moon via gusts of solar ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field.

Scientists say Earth’s magnetic field may have funneled atmospheric particles to the moon for billions of years. Lunar soil could preserve a record of Earth’s past while providing resources for future ...

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 process, which existed for billions of years, would eventually turn lunar soil into a long-running archive of Earth's ...

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 ...

New research reveals the Moon may have been silently collecting Earth’s atmosphere for billions of years. Scientists now ...

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 ...

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 ...

"We give a definitive answer that meteorite impact vaporization is the dominant process that creates the lunar atmosphere." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 — ...