Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a ...

Bouncing back from under the weight of Ice Age glaciers which have long since vanished, the Nordic region land mass is slowly ...

It was Blue Origin’s first attempt at mimicking lunar gravity, which is one-sixth that of Earth. NASA said it wants to test equipment on short spaceflights to weed out any problems before sending them ...

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On Christmas Day, the asteroid came closest to Earth and passed near around 500,000 miles (800,000 kilometers), which is roughly twice the moon's distance from Earth. Two days later, it was ...

Until that maneuver, however, Blue Ghost has been busy above the big blue Earth, beaming home beautiful images of our planet, as well as views of its far-off final destination, the moon.

A new study has revealed that gravity’s effect on Earth is constantly shaping the ... and perhaps even create artificial gravity on the Moon and other places we visit. Josh Hawkins has been ...

This research flight will simulate the Moon's one-sixth gravity, testing critical lunar technologies for future space exploration. The mission will carry 30 research payloads, focusing almost entirely ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely referred to as a "mini-moon." Turns out the lunar-inspired moniker may have been more accurate than we realized.

There are a significant number of words, phrases and acronyms that appear when talking about race and ethnicity which often change depending on the context of the conversation. Language is ...

For 45 years, the Alien movie franchise has seen the Xenomorphs terrorize poor groups of humans on various spaceships and planets (most recently in the 2024 movie Alien: Romulus), but now the iconic ...