NASA has updated its list of potential landing sites for the next human visit to the moon, which is planned for 2026. The Artemis III mission will see the first crewed lunar landing since the Apollo ...
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 ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth eclipsing the sun. See the dazzling views here.
As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct ... in the sky and is half-illuminated from our point of view. We call it "first quarter" because the moon has traveled about a quarter ...
27 at 7:45 p.m. EDT (00:45 on Feb. 28). A new moon occurs when the moon is directly between Earth and the sun, with its shadowed side pointing towards us. You can see a new moon when it crosses ...
A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year ... thousands of years ago on the moon's surface. The asteroid, known as 2024 PT5, was first spotted Aug. 7 by astronomers using ...