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The latest private lunar lander is a little closer to its destination. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost fired its engines early ...

"trans lunar injection." Then on Thursday, the lander, named Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes to ...

Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...

Astronomers have taken a major step in understanding how planets form, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). A ...

The controversy endures over Pluto's true status, but the solar system underdog continues to capture hearts across the globe.

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Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the complicated maneuver that will get the Trailblazer in a position to reach ...

Earth has a variety of islands and bodies of water that resemble a heart. ESA takes you on a tour. Credit: ESA ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.