According to a study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the “moon” in ...

The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...

This miniature moon is projected to be in Earth’s ... flyby happens when the object doesn’t complete a revolution around ...

As the year ended, a different sort of revolution suddenly forced itself into the world’s imagination. It was represented by the flight around ... earth. It was possible to look at the moon ...

Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth, the space rock maintained a horseshoe orbit that brought it close, but it never actually entered ...

A description of why the shape of the Moon appears to change when seen from the Earth. The half of the Moon facing the Sun gets illuminated and the other half is in darkness. When the dark side of ...

ispace's Resilience lander launched on Jan. 15 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, along with Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander. It is taking an energy-efficient, circuitous route to the moon, and only ...

Scientists think a small rock discovered near Earth last August was hurled into space by an ancient impact on the lunar surface. By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size ...

A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth’s gravity to become a far away mini-moon. A closer look at the space rock reveals a rather ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim. Experts had believed our satellite was created when hypothetical body Theia ...