A small NASA satellite broke free from its orbit around Earth Monday and is now headed toward the moon, signaling a step in the right direction for the space program's efforts to put astronauts on ...

meaning the spacecraft will orbit the Moon in the opposite direction that the Moon orbits the Earth. NASA selected this orbit because it will allow engineers to spend more time testing spacecraft ...

That collision vaporized a good chunk of our planet’s mass, sending it into orbit ... The moon’s gravity always pulls on the Earth, raising the tides in its direction. But the Earth is ...

The full moon will appear June 10–12 about 27 degrees above the true horizon. It won’t be this low again until the early 2040s.

While in lunar orbit, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured an image of the Moon’s south pole on the far left. Firefly Aerospace The hits from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission to the ...

NASA’s Orion spacecraft has entered orbit around the moon, marking the start of its week-long orbit as part of the Artemis I mission. The plan is for the uncrewed spacecraft to test out ...

It’s retrograde because the spacecraft will orbit opposite the direction that the moon circles the Earth. The spacecraft, which blasted off Nov. 16 on NASA’s Space Launch System — the most ...