The latest private lunar lander is a little closer to its destination. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost fired its engines early ...

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

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

For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Blue Ghost captured the Earth image ... achieved in order to get to the moon, some 239,000 miles away. The spacecraft will fly two more weeks around the planet before its Trans Lunar Injection ...

The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons ... In truth, however, a quasi-moon follows an orbit around the sun (like an asteroid would) rather than the respective ...

The second full moon of spring 2024 in the northern hemisphere rose last night and was photographed around the globe ... it through the thickest layer of Earth's atmosphere.