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 ...
By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...
A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away mini-moon. A closer look at the space rock reveals a rather ...
The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons ... In truth, however, a quasi-moon follows an orbit around the sun (like an asteroid would) rather than the respective ...
"This is a story about the moon as told by asteroid scientists." Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new ...
A coronal mass ejection from the Sun will reach Earth over the weekend. Experts predict not only the appearance of colorful ...
Anyone who reads this column regularly knows how much I enjoy seeing a conjunction of the moon and Venus in the western sky at dusk. I’m not sure why it’s ...
A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight.Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to ...