The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...

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

A full moon happens when the moon is directly opposite the sun from our perspective on Earth, fully illuminated by sunlight.

The moon's orbit is elliptical, or oval-shaped, meaning as its distance from our planet changes, its apparent size changes, too — but only slightly.

There will also be two total lunar eclipses that occur during the March and September full moon events. A lunar eclipse, ...

While in lunar orbit, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured an image of the Moon’s south pole on the far left. Firefly Aerospace The hits from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission to the ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

different cultures have celebrated full moons because they were a way to signal changes in seasons, since the moon’s orbit around the is consistent enough that time can be measured without ...

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

The full moon is also known as Snow Moon as it will occur in a chilly winter with snowfall in many areas. This full moon ...

The head of planetary defense at the European Space Agency discusses 2024 YR4, an asteroid with a small chance of striking ...

Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse ... Planets always appear along a line in the sky because they all orbit the sun in a mostly flat plane called ...