The team behind the research suggests that the moon's atmosphere is mainly sustained, and has been for billions of years, by this assault causing a phenomenon called "impact vaporization." ...

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 atmosphere is so thin that we only discovered it in 1971—after astronauts had already been there. Ever since, scientists have been puzzling about how it got there. A team of scientists from ...

A new study suggests the very thin atmosphere on the moon is mainly supported by meteorite impacts that kick up atoms that then become trapped around it. Photo: NASA RCI Posted: August 2, 2024 7:33 PM ...

"Technically speaking, a lunar atmosphere is not really an atmosphere. [As] scientists, we call it an exosphere, just because it's very, very thin." ...

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 ...

When NASA sent its orbiter LADEE (Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer) to the Moon in 2013, the mission was intended to find out the origins of the Moon’s atmosphere.

Space Science apollo moon Moon's thin atmosphere likely created by constant micrometeorite impacts Apollo-era samples were instrumental in the new discovery By Alfonso Maruccia August 6, 2024, 1:01 PM ...

Mars, Europa and Enceladus are the three most promising locations in the solar system to search for life living off cosmic rays.

Solar particles strips away gas in atmosphere by about 100 grams every second CBC News · Posted: Nov 05, 2015 7:10 AM PST | Last Updated: November 5, 2015 ...

The moon may be our constant companion, but there's still a lot we have yet to understand about it. For example, it was only during the Apollo missions in the 1960s and '70s that we discovered it ...