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Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander leaves Earth orbit to head for the moon
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...
New Scientist2d
There’s a tiny chance the asteroid headed for Earth could hit the moon
YR4 does smash down on the lunar surface, the explosion might be visible from Earth and would leave a new crater on the near ...
Space.com2h
Total lunar eclipse brings a Blood Moon to North America next month. Here's how to see it
A total lunar eclipse occurs when the Earth moves directly between the sun and the full moon, casting its During totality — ...
See The ‘Snow Moon’ End Chinese New Year And Set Up Ramadan And A ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse
The Snow Moon rose on Feb. 12, 2025, marking the end of Chinese New Year and setting up both the beginning of Ramadan and a ...
Think this space station and moon photo is AI? Meet the photographer.
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 ...
Today’s Full Moon Sets Up Rare ‘Blood Moon’ Eclipse For North America
The rise of the "Snow Moon" today sets in motion a lunar orbit that will result in a total lunar eclipse for North America on ...
Earth's mini-moon was the moon all along
PT5, which almost became a temporary mini-moon to Earth, was recently found to be a broken-off part of the moon itself. This ...
Live Science on MSN9h
China Successfully Tests Earth-Moon Communications With New Satellites Pic, Says CCTV
Tiandu-2 and Queqiao-2 satellites have successfully tested communications from moon orbit to Earth. Credit: Space.com | Footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta ...
Firefly’s Blue Ghost moon mission shares its most stunning image yet
“Now four weeks into the mission, Blue Ghost has downlinked more than 15 GB of data, including NASA science data, from record-breaking GNSS signals to magnetic field measurements, that is already ...
Asteroid headed towards Earth might smash into the Moon, scientists say
Since the Moon does not have an atmosphere like the Earth to slow down asteroids, a potential impact by the giant space rock ...
Earth’s Water Mystery Deepens With New Meteorite Evidence
Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...