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 ...
The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched ... 9:49 A.M. Moonset: 11:44 P.M. First Quarter Moon occurs at 3:02 A.M. EST. Nearly half a day later, the ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander continues to capture beautiful views on its 45-day road trip to the Moon, most recently an Earth eclipse. After sharing its first views of Earth and the Moon, Blue Ghost ...
A University of Miami astrophysicist is part of a team of scientists who labored for years on one of the most technologically advanced of those endeavors: a telescope that will land on the moon and ...
The full moon occurs when the moon is directly opposite the sun from Earth's perspective ... Orion is visible the first half of the night, starting the evening high in the southeast by 7 p.m ...