Blue Ghost, the lunar module from Firefly Aerospace, made an impressive capture while on its way to the Moon. O post Lunar ...

The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway ...

Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...

Improved analytical techniques will enable scientists to make more precise measurements, further refining models of the Earth-moon origin. As researchers piece together the story of Earth and its ...

stick together briefly and then separate while remaining gravitationally bound." The models used to understand the giant impact that formed Earth's Moon work very well for bodies within the Solar ...

Molten debris from the smash was believed to have bound together to form the moon. But a new study suggests it is instead made primarily from material spat out from the Earth’s mantle — the ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft will attempt a lunar landing on Sunday, March 2 after roughly 45 days orbiting both Earth and the moon itself. The lengthy orbital period will enable mission operators to ...

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Oxygen isotope identity of the Earth and Moon with implications for the formation of the Moon and source of volatiles. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (52) DOI: 10.1073 ...

This is the second time scientists have linked a near-Earth object to the moon, after a 2021 study identified the object 469219 Kamoʻoalewa as possibly lunar in origin. Taken together ...

Two gargantuan canyons on the moon were carved by a hailstorm of rocks — and that’s good news for future lunar astronauts.