“Firefly’s first Moon and Blue Marble images captured by ... Blue Ghost has been orbiting Earth since January 15, when the lander hitched a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Moon Lidar is a visualization of the data collected by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission. According to t ...
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.
A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...
Mining ocean resources needed for electric cars and other devices is currently a hot issue of dispute. Final resolution of ...
An unusual looking 33-foot-long object discovered orbiting Earth last year may have come from a surprising place.
It's the first moonshot for Firefly and the second for ispace, which crashed its first lander into the moon in 2023. Tokyo-based ispace's latest lander, Resilience, is still orbiting Earth and ...
Still circling Earth, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander fired its thrusters Thursday to put it on a path to reach the moon in ...
Neither Mercury nor Venus has a moon, and Earth, of course, has just one permanent natural satellite (though it sometimes captures temporary "minimoons"). Nobody knew of any moons orbiting Mars ...