Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while ...

Chilling animations depict the apocalyptic impact that “city-killer” asteroid YR4 2024 could have if it did hit Earth — while ...

The one silver lining is that Dr. Rankin’s forecast is slightly less dire than current estimates, which assert that YR4 has a ...

The sun, Earth and the moon are aligned, but because the moon’s orbit is not exactly in the same plane as Earth’s orbit around the sun, they rarely form a perfect line. When they do ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...

“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 ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is just by looking up.

Our four seasons are a result of the Earth’s ... each day. The moon, too, exhibits these "up and down" motions in the sky. However, it completes this cycle much faster than the sun, doing so every ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the ...

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

Firefly Aerospace has shared an awesome video clip captured by its Blue Ghost spacecraft as it heads to the moon.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but there’s a very slight chance the moon could take the hit. Based on current observations, there is a 2.1 per cent chance that the ...