Just above the moon will be Mars, shining with a steady orange glow. Both the moon and Mars will be in the Gemini ...

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.

Curtiss caught a glimpse of Robert McMath's moon movies, he was in awe. Astronomical motion pictures, Curtiss believed, could quite literally change how scientists and astronomy students looked at ...

The company, in collaboration with Space Florida and Intuitive Machines, successfully conducted the first full data storage test from the Moon’s surface in February 2024. In 2021, they ...

About 10 m (33 feet) wide, the object appears to be composed of rock broken off from the Moon’s surface and ejected into space after a large impact. “We had a general idea that this asteroid may have ...

One week ago, a private lunar lander left the ground on a nearly 7-week journey to reach the surface of the moon. The launch may ... pulled off by Houston-based space company Intuitive Machines ...

The $93.3 million mission comes as NASA plans to send humans back to the moon within this decade for the first time since the space agency's Apollo program came to an end more than 50 years ago.

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These are exciting times in space exploration, as more and more countries and private enterprises are mastering technology not only to orbit the Earth, but to reach to the Moon and beyond.

After India successfully landed Chandrayaan-3, its third lunar mission near the South Pole of the Moon in August 2023, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) this week successfully completed ...