Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar orbit. Blue Ghost launched on the "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission on Jan ...

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.

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 ...

Blue Ghost captured the Earth image ... embarks on its moon-bound trajectory, it will take four days for it to arrive at the moon. The spacecraft will spend 16 days in lunar orbit before ...

Blue Ghost will spend 25 days in Earth's orbit before embarking on a four-day journey to the moon, located around a quarter-million miles away. The Blue Ghost spacecraft's trajectory to the moon.

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This name reflects the quasi-moon's unique orbital path, embodying a celestial gateway between Earth and space." The pink dot represents Zoozve's orbit around Venus, shown as a green shot ...

The research, conducted by scientists from the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, suggests the moon originated mainly from Earth's mantle. Analysing ...

Analysis of 2024 PT5's orbit showed it wasn't an errant piece of space junk. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The asteroid is about 33 feet (10 meters) across and poses no danger to Earth. It joins ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — 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 ...

and without its Earth-facing side illuminated by the sun, observers can't really see it. Occasionally, the moon's orbit does bring it directly between the Earth and the sun during a new moon ...