Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...
The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the ...
Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...
The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...
NASA has plans to launch the first deep space station for humans to live long-term. Is it a necessary step to Mars?
In 2024, Lonestar tested the world’s first software-defined data center around the moon’s orbit. Now, they want to send it to ...
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
The sun, Earth and the moon are aligned, but because the moon’s orbit is not exactly in the same plane as Earth’s orbit around the sun, they rarely form a perfect line. When they do ...
Blue Ghost, named after an exotic species of firefly, captured the below footage while flying laps around Earth ... at the moon. The spacecraft will spend 16 days in lunar orbit before dropping ...
Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.
The internet is currently swimming with talk about an asteroid that could hit Earth in 2032. "Could" is a stretch, however, ...