Lunar exploration is entering a new era. Long after the Apollo missions, a renewed international interest comes with ...

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them ...

SpaceX’s Starship rocket took off with promise but ended in setback once again on Tuesday, as the mammoth launch vehicle lost ...

The moon's final quarter arrives May 20, offering stunning views of half its surface lit. Discover the best ways to observe ...

We've even been asked if you could run solar cells during the long lunar night on reflected earthlight, so we decided to ...

Each has navigated the long journey through space and the even trickier descent to the Moon’s surface or into orbit with varying degrees of success. Together, these missions reflect both the promise ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, an Expedition 73 crew member aboard the International Space Station, photographed the full "Flower" moon in May 2025. | Credit: NASA/Nichole Ayers The May 2025 full ...

NASA missions then deftly demonstrated GNSS utility well beyond Earth orbit ... to the moon aboard Blue Ghost Mission 1, a robotic lunar lander built by Firefly Aerospace under NASA’s CLPS program.

A private spacecraft carrying NASA instruments to the surface of the moon in preparation for astronauts to return in the years ahead has reached lunar orbit about a month into its spaceflight.

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 ...

(C) Earth's moon's orbit is actually more eccentric than Io's ... (NASA/JPL/USGS/Jason Perry/Public Domain) During this latest flyby, it was much further away. It only got to within about 74,400 ...

Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons ... which is set to land astronauts on the Moon for NASA’s Artemis 3 mission in 2027. Juno to be removed from Jupiter’s orbit NASA’s Juno mission, ...