Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit ...

Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...

Last year, a pair of researchers claimed that the shockwaves of the shutdown could be felt as far as the moon, causing a ...

Last year, a study led by planetary scientist Richard Cartwright at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in ...

Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...

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.

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Avi Loeb shares the story of how a Tesla Roadster had some astronomers convinced for a time that they had discovered a new ...

How did Pluto end up with its largest moon, Charon? Like many entanglements ... events when proto-Pluto was rotating with a 3-hour period. The simulations showed that Charon would end up in ...

Because of the orbital motions of the Saturnian moon and its impactor ... bulges at the equator from its rapid 10.5-hour rotation period, the planet’s thickened middle would have torqued ...

EPIC is only positioned to capture this incredible image twice a year, as the orbit of DSCOVR crosses the orbital plane of the moon. Sitting between the Earth and the Sun, DSCOVR’s primary ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft will attempt a lunar landing on Sunday, March 2 after roughly 45 days orbiting both Earth and the moon itself. The lengthy orbital period will enable mission operators to ...