Firefly Aerospace has shared an awesome video clip captured by its Blue Ghost spacecraft as it heads to the moon.The Latest ...

Some nights when we look up at the moon, it is full and bright; sometimes it is just a sliver of silvery light. These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth ...

Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a ...

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...

The call today is for binding rules to protect the orbits of Earth, Moon, and Mars from space debris contamination. Initiatives need to be formulated for effective, sustainable, and equitable ...

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.

The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight. The next new moon will occur on Thursday, Feb. 27 at 7:45 ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon ... into how space weather and other cosmic forces affect Earth.

Firefly's Blue Ghost spacecraft shortly after reaching Earth orbit ... robot from the Japanese space agency. Following their journey to the Moon, both landers will be targeting lunar mares ...