Even though these particular lunar craters aren't visible from your backyard, Kring says there are similar, but smaller canyons on the near side of the moon that's visible in the night sky. These ...

Despite predictions that the asteroid might become a temporary mini-moon whirling around Earth, the space rock maintained a horseshoe orbit that brought it close, but it never actually entered ...

Elon Musk is responsible for unleashing a mystery " asteroid" that has been spotted orbiting the Earth and closer than the Moon. Scientists ... catapulted into orbit. The "asteroid" they found ...

A private US spacecraft headed to the moon has captured breathtaking images of Earth during its journey. Firefly Aerospace's lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, is currently orbiting Earth and recently ...

The goal was to find a name for one of ... "moons" that orbit planets and seem to behave like regular moons at first glance. In truth, however, a quasi-moon follows an orbit around the sun ...

The discovery of 2024 PT5 doubles the number of known asteroids thought to originate from the moon. Asteroid 469219 Kamo'oalewa was found in 2016 with an Earth-like orbit around the sun ...

Blue Ghost will orbit Earth for 21 more days before it embarks on a four-day trip to reach lunar orbit. Once there, it will spend 16 days circling the moon before making its way down to attempt a ...

This linkage may mean that closely monitoring the incoming solar wind could help scientists better predict the production of chorus waves around Earth and other planets, potentially improving ...

This can happen because the electric and magnetic fields of the radiation in chorus waves rotate mainly in a clockwise direction and the electrons spiral around Earth’s magnetic field in the ...

The rocket's payload of 21 satellites was deployed to low-Earth orbit, where they will join the ... Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared ...

For the third time in a year, a commercial lunar lander backed by NASA is on its way to the moon's surface ... the Falcon 9 rocket on an elliptical Earth orbit before establishing communications ...