A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...
While Resilience and Blue Ghost are in orbit and preparing to leave for the moon, another lunar lander — Intuitive Machines ' IM-2, or Athena — recently arrived at Cape Canaveral to loaded atop of a ...
Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new study that deepens our understanding of the types of space rocks ...
An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.
James Webb Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory captured new images of Saturn's moon Titan. Credit: NASA/STScI/W. M.
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NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this amazing view from the International Space Station using a new 15mm lens (T1.8, ...
After years of delays, NASA’s Artemis missions to the Moon commenced in a big way more ... Lockheed Martin, MDA Space, Moonprint, Pratt Miller Defense, Sierra Space and Special Aerospace Services.
By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander, part of NASA's mission, captures breathtaking Earth images. Discover the details ...
“We’ve tested everything we can on Earth now,” says Brant White, a program manager at Sierra Space, a private company. “The next step is going to the moon.” Sierra Space’s experiment ...
Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued astronomers ... on the surface of the moon,” said Kiyoshi Masui, associate professor ...