The fact that you can't breathe on the moon probably isn't surprising. That said, the moon does have an atmosphere; it's just very different than Earth's.

The Sun periodically ejects huge bubbles of plasma from its surface that contain an intense magnetic field. These events are ...

The launch of the Blue Ghost module, scheduled to land on the moon early next month, is a key step in creating an Earth–moon ...

Scientists have identified water as one of the most effective materials for blocking radiation. Water is dense and contains ...

NASA launched a quintet of satellites to figure out the science behind Earth's most colorful auroras. The mission was titled ...

That’s quite a big gap, as it turns out. It covers fields from gigantic bodies like the Sun and Earth, as well as those ...

This even distribution of hydrogen is thought to be key to developing scalable radiation shields for both spacecraft and the ...

The Valentine's Day northern lights will largely be visible in Canada and Alaska, but a few northern-most states may see the ...

NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission is a groundbreaking space mission designed to study the Sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, and its expansion ...

The Sun's changing magnetic field can create ... with just a few events that impact Earth. Earth's atmosphere and magnetosphere protect us from the high-intensity radiation of solar flares and ...

Earth's magnetic field occasionally bursts into ... so the side pointing away from the sun is stretched into a long tail). Every other chorus wave astronomers have heard started closer to home ...

created by solar winds (where hydrogen from the sun reacts with oxygen at high energy on the moon and likely Mars to create water) deposition (from icy comets that have crashed onto the lunar surface) ...