Saturn’s rings are breaking apart and heating up planet’s thin atmosphere, study finds. Ring particles modifying Saturn’s upper atmosphere, changing its composition, scientists say .

Ever wondered if the moon has an atmosphere? Surprisingly, it does, but it’s nothing like Earth’s. According to recent research, it’s actually extremely thin and almost ghost-like. Published ...

The lunar atmosphere is not at all like you might picture based on Earth’s. It’s much too thin to help humans breathe; it’s little more than a haze of atoms that hang at a distance from the lunar ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago.

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 doesn't have an atmosphere like the one that shields Earth from the sun's radiation and the vacuum of space. Instead, it has an extremely thin layer of atoms called an exosphere, and ...

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 ...

While the moon lacks any breathable air, it does host a barely-there atmosphere. Since the 1980s, astronomers have observed a very thin layer of atoms bouncing over the moon's surface.

Compared to Earth's thick atmosphere, the moon's exosphere is composed of trace amounts of gases, making it nearly a vacuum. These gases include hydrogen, helium, neon, and tiny amounts of other ...

Impacts that vaporize bits of the lunar surface maintain the Moon’s thin atmosphere. ... by electromagnetic radiation from the solar wind and often carried off into space by solar wind particles.

For years, scientists have puzzled over how Mars lost the thick atmosphere it once had. That atmosphere was essential for liquid water to exist on the planet’s surface, billions of years ago.