Moon’s Water Came From Earth?! Shocking Discovery Could Change Lunar Exploration Scientists have discovered a surprising origin for the Moon’s water — Earth itself. While asteroids and comets were long believed to be the main source of lunar water, new research suggests that hydrogen and oxygen ions escaping from Earth’s atmosphere may have slowly supplied the Moon with water over billions of years. As the Moon passes through Earth’s magnetic tail each month, atmospheric ions are funneled toward

New Evidence of Water on Moon's Surface | China Chang'e-5 Lunar Mission FriendsofNASA.org: A team of Chinese scientists has identified in a lunar sample, retrieved by the Chang'e-5 Moon Mission in 2020, a kind of mineral enriched with water in its molecular structure. An increasing body of evidence has pointed to the existence of water or water ice on the Moon's surface. However, it is more likely to be in the form of hydroxyl groups. Now, scientists led by those from the Institute of Physics un