Before arriving at the Moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the Sun, Earth, and Moon over several months ...
The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA ...
There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare ...
"Witness Earth eclipsing the Sun from Blue Ghost's top ... Blue Ghost will spend 25 days in Earth's orbit before embarking on a four-day journey to the moon, located around a quarter-million ...
A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more appropriate than thought.
Firefly Aerospace's "little lander" has captured the littlest lunar eclipse in a breathtaking video captured from Earth orbit ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar orbit.
For a brief, but exciting, time last year, Earth had two moons. A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit ...
However, the moon's orbit around Earth is tilted about 5 degrees relative to Earth's orbit around the Sun. This is why lunar eclipses don't occur every full moon—they only happen when the moon's ...
Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...
A full moon happens when the moon is directly opposite the sun from our perspective on Earth, fully illuminated by sunlight.