The small near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 has been creating a buzz among researchers. Discovered last year with the help of a ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar ...

The moon may still be geologically active, judging from the way the lunar far side is wrinkling as the moon contracts. At ...

A private U.S. spacecraft has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare front-row seat of the spectacle in space. The phenomenon occurred when the blue ...

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 ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based ... platform X — features a view of the moon from the top ...

What is the moon phase today ... illuminated from our point of view. We call it "first quarter" because the moon has traveled about a quarter of the way around Earth since the new moon.

Firefly also released another image showing just Blue Ghost’s view of the moon: An image of the Moon in the distance taken by Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander while in Earth orbit.

People often look at the stars from Earth, but astronauts get to look at Earth from the stars. The crew on the International Space Station use their cameras to show off the world from 260 miles above.

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was ... However, this almost-mini-moon is still special as it is potentially a piece of the real moon, said Dr. Teddy Kareta, a ...