An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
The images were captured using NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a 4MP CCD camera and telescope on the DSCOVR ...
Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in ...
The World Monuments Fund has added the moon to its watch list of 25 historic places that face major challenges and has called ...
Blue Ghost's main mission will be research. It will hang out in Earth's orbit for 25 days taking measurements and waiting for ...
These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon ...
These are exciting times in space exploration, as more and more countries and private enterprises are mastering technology ...
The study suggests that the Moon likely formed largely from Earth's mantle material — with minimal involvement from Theia.
The Austin-area space firm’s Blue Ghost mission will gather more information about deep space and lunar environments for ...
Analysis of samples from both the Apollo missions and the USSR’s uncrewed Luna missions ... the Moon had a weak global magnetic field about 1/20th the strength of Earth’s present magnetic ...