A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within one-third of the Earth-moon ... looping orbit around the sun.

NASA’s learned a lot about the Moon since Apollo. But a perfect landing still requires incredible planning and scientific ...

Half a century after the Apollo astronauts left the last bootprints in lunar dust, the moon has once again become a ...

In 1972, the Soviet Union’s Venera 8 spacecraft became the second ever to land on Venus. It operated for 50 minutes in the planet’s harsh environment before succumbing to the intense heat. But this ...

Asteroid 2003 MH4, a large space rock, will make a close approach to Earth on May 24, 2025. While not an immediate threat, ...

Blue Ghost took a more direct route to the moon, arriving in lunar orbit on Feb. 13 and touching down on Earth's nearest neighbor ... after Intuitive Machines' Odysseus craft in February 2024.

That was a historic moment; Blue Ghost became just the second private spacecraft to soft-land on the moon, after Intuitive Machines' Odysseus craft ... Earth's remote spacecraft graveyard, from ...

It was the first satellite in Earth's orbit. Or was it ... a rescued turtle finally sees the sun Federal Reserve releases financial stability report Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2025 inductees ...

This is the world's first daytime satellite laser ranging in the Earth-moon space, marking a new technological breakthrough for China in the field of precise deep-space orbit measurement ...

Earthshine is a "dull glow which lights up the unlit part of the moon because the sun’s light reflects ... is at its farthest point in its orbit around the Earth. It won’t look any smaller.

Lunar exploration activities are evolving from short-term missions to long-term construction, from single-craft exploration ... observation of the Sun-Earth-Moon system, lunar-based fundamental ...