The call today is for binding rules to protect the orbits of Earth, Moon, and Mars from space debris contamination. Initiatives need to be formulated for effective, sustainable, and equitable ...

See the epic view of the moon and Earth captured by the Orion spacecraft ahead of its outbound powered flyby. Credit: NASA / time-lapsed by Space.com's Steve Spaleta Music: Kepler's Hope by Year of th ...

A time-lapse view of Antarctica & the moon can be seen in footage captured by the Meteosat-11 satellite. Credit: Simon Proud ...

Private space company ... to attempt its first moon landing March 2, 2025. Credit: Firefly Aerospace A robotic spacecraft has beamed home crisp videos and snapshots of Earth eclipsing the moon.

A tiny asteroid loitering in a near-Earth ... moon. If that's the case, it's only the second time a NEA has been found that came from the moon. If only one existed, we could say it's a space ...

Explore how 3D printing, robotics, and AI are paving the way for sustainable moon bases amid unique challenges.

The two lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost, and Resilience, built by the Japanese company ispace — lifted off ...

A new image from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission shows the spacecraft’s first glimpse of the moon. Launched nearly two weeks ago, the spacecraft is headed to the moon where it aims to ...

Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander ... toward Earth, and then expand when the solar wind weakens." Insights from LEXI could help mitigate the impact of space weather on ...

More of a standing on the space porch and gawking at Earth, but it still counts. Meanwhile, on the Moon, some firsts were being clocked up in 2024. In January, the US commercial Peregrine mission ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.

Thanks to the parallax effect, the Moon's relative motion in its orbit around Earth appears significantly faster than the movement of Mars in its orbit around the Sun. There are undoubtedly ...