The Odysseus lunar lander fired its main engine for six minutes and 48 seconds Wednesday, putting the spacecraft into a 57-mile-high orbit around the moon and setting the stage for a landing try ...

There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission. Firefly's lunar ...

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 ...

New research on the Earth-Moon system's orbit over time suggests that so-called "moonlets" once circled our planet. Though those moonlets no longer orbit Earth, scientists believe similar ones ...

There's a simple answer: The orbits of the Earth and the moon are out-of-sync and they only briefly align to form occational eclipses, according to NASA. Specifically, the moon’s orbit is tilted ...

The height of this arc depends on your location on Earth’s surface, and where the Earth is in its orbit. It also depends on the season: for example, during winter, the Moon has a lower height arc.

If the active and passive masses were different, that would violate the rule and the uneven tug-of-war would alter the moon’s orbit. Based upon decades of laser measurements of the moon’s ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A celestial event not seen since 2006 is set to captivate skywatchers as the major lunar standstill begins, marking the extremes of the moon's orbit around Earth. This rare ...