Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar ...
This week’s new moon, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, will signal the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year, which is this year ...
On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...
Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...
Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.
Because the period of an object does not depend on its mass, comets’ orbital periods remain unchanged due to mass loss.
The case of mistaken identity was quickly resolved, but astronomers say it shows the need for transparency around craft in ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...
While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human ...
Four compact satellites of NASA's PUNCH mission are prepping for a shared launch with the SPHEREx space telescope on a SpaceX ...
Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit sometime next month.