Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

Bethesda's partnership with the band Imagine Dragons adds another layer with a forthcoming real-world space launch, as the ...

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

Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

The rocket-powered Gracie will conduct five hops during its short lunar stay, including one into the depths of a shadowy ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A small near-Earth asteroid, 2024 PT5, may originate from the Moon, as its reflectance spectrum matches lunar samples but not known asteroid types. This suggests ...

The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to Earth’s Grand Canyon, are hidden on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away from Earth — near the lunar south pole ...

The DSCOVR satellite captured the unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of the Earth. The series of test images showed the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is ...

Thanks to the parallax effect, the Moon's relative motion in its orbit around Earth appears significantly faster than the movement of Mars in its orbit around the Sun. There are undoubtedly ...