Though 2025 won't mark the return of astronauts into deep space as NASA had hoped, launchpads still will be scorching-hot from a procession of robotic spacecraft attempting to land on the moon. How ...
NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight. Dubbed Blue ...
Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit sometime next month. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander is on its way to the moon.
And that's just what a spacecraft built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace has set out to do on its 60-day mission to Earth's only natural satellite. Upon arrival, Firefly's spacecraft will ...
This may explain the strange properties of the orbits of our solar system's planets, which are not quite perfectly circular, and all lie on slightly different planes. NASA artist’s conception of ...
Couldn’t we all do with a little stress reduction? Especially since all seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment.
Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets. Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will be visible all at once this month. Stock illustration of all the solar system's planets.
All of our solar system’s planets are lining up to parade through the night sky at once. This extraordinary celestial event will see the sky scattered with seven visible planets in what is known ...
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit before shoving four of the solar system's planets onto a different course.
Credit: NAOJ The James Webb Space Telescope has provided groundbreaking insights into a new type of exoplanet, fundamentally different from those in our Solar System, by piercing through thick cloud ...
Two different lunar missions lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this week, each with its own trek and purpose as they head for the silvery orb. Texas-based Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost ...