I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Private space company Firefly is guiding its Blue Ghost lander through space to attempt its first moon landing in March. Credit: Firefly Aerospace An uncrewed spacecraft just snapped an iconic ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar orbit. Blue Ghost launched on the "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission on Jan ...

"This is a story about the moon as told by asteroid scientists." Earth's distant rocky companion was likely a fragment of the moon blasted into space thousands of years ago, according to a new ...

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The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

Many owners think so, thanks to the “talking buttons” craze on TikTok and Instagram. Scientists are less convinced. By Camille Bromley In Louisa, an unbearable social crisis has become the ...

Before them stood a silvery metal contraption swathed in colourful wires – a box that they hope will one day make oxygen on the moon. Once the team vacated the sphere, the experiment began.

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(Firefly Aerospace via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Still circling Earth, Firefly ...

It’s an interesting conceit for Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou in his new book, Dealing with the Dead – but it’s not his strongest work ...