"The moon flies through Earth's atmosphere," Igor Baliukin, a space physicist at Russia's Space Research Institute in Moscow, said in a European Space Agency (ESA) press release. "We were not ...

But Google searches for “Why is the moon orange ... blocked by our planet is filtered through a thick slice of Earth’s atmosphere on its way to the lunar surface," NASA says.

One of the only reasons we’re all able to live our lives on this planet is that Earth was blessed with a robust atmosphere. That’s something that not all planets have, and scientists are still ...