The Moon’s landscape has remained dead for billions of years. At least that’s the traditional scientific dogma on lunar life. But a recent study could upend centuries of scientific understanding about life on the Moon.
According to the researchers, conditions on the Moon’s surface could have supported simple lifeforms when the Moon was just a freshly formed celestial body four billion years ago, and when its volcanoes peaked in volcanic activity 3.5 billion years ago.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University, is the author of the study. According to him, the Moon was ejecting large quantities of superheated volatile gases, including water vapor from its interior that could have created an atmosphere and the presence of liquid water.