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 ...

Recent studies suggest that the Moon, now a barren world with a negligible atmosphere, may once have had an atmosphere akin to Earth’s. This intriguing possibility is based on new research analyzing ...

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’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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Scientists say they have identified the main process that formed the moon's atmosphere and continues to sustain it today. The team reports that the lunar atmosphere is primarily a product of 'impact ...

Blue moons and blood moons. While some of these names are meant to coincide with other astronomical or worldly event — the strawberry moon is so named because it's the time when strawberries are ...

A total lunar eclipse, viewable across North and South America, will begin at 12:55 a.m. EDT on Friday, March 14. An orange or red moon outside of a lunar eclipse is often caused by pollution, such as ...