Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan.

Firefly Aerospace 's moon-bound spacecraft has provided the closest thing to a reflecting pool in space, showing Earth as an ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander, a private spacecraft hired by NASA to take experiments to the moon, got a rare ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s ... altered by a very close approach with the Earth-Moon system, and then recede away from us on the ‘outside ...

Pluto-Charon Formation Scenario Mimics Earth-Moon System Jan. 7, 2025 — A researcher ... Dec. 12, 2024 — Stars similar to the Sun produce a gigantic outburst of radiation on average about ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight ... to the ecliptic — the plane of the solar system, along which we see the Sun, Moon, and planets appear to move in the sky ...