Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

What if the Moon didn’t just orbit Earth but crashed right into it? The consequences would be beyond catastrophic—tsunamis, ...

Scientists say Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck—dramatic trenches near the lunar south pole—were carved in a blast that ...

On Earth, those in the path of totality will see the moon passing completely into Earth’s shadow, causing the moon to take on a reddish hue. It will be visible between March 13-14 for ...

It’s the first moonshot for Firefly and the second for ispace, which crashed its first lander into the moon in 2023. Tokyo-based ispace’s latest lander, Resilience, is still orbiting Earth ...

New research has shown that when an asteroid slammed into the Moon billions of years ago, it carved a pair of huge canyons on the far side that faces away from Earth. The incoming space rock is ...

drill into the soil below the lander, monitor background X-ray emissions, test whether Earth-orbiting navigation satellites can be used near the moon and the effectiveness of computer radiation ...

The Schrödinger impact crater sits near to the Moon’s ... Canyon here on Earth. These were formed when debris, thrown up by a meteor or comet hitting the Moon, crashed back into the surface.

Phobos is spiraling toward Mars and will either break up and form a ring around the Red Planet or crash into the surface ... Neither Mercury nor Venus has a moon, and Earth, of course, has ...