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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Moon, for most intents and purposes, is naked, bare, and exposed to the vacuum of space. But Earth's satellite does indeed ...

The Moon may not have much of an atmosphere, mostly because of its weak gravitational field (whether it had a substantial atmosphere billions of years ago is debatable). But it is thought to presently ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is easy to imagine the moon as an atmosphere-less hunk of rock orbiting Earth. However, while lacking breathable air, our planet's loyal natural satellite companion does have a thin and wispy ...

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 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 ...