Firefly Aerospace's soon-to-launch Blue Ghost moon lander will help NASA better understand our home planet, and how it responds to space weather.

A groundbreaking X-ray imager is on its way to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's magnetic defenses. This ...

To get a global view of Earth’s magnetosphere, NASA’s Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) is set for a trip to the moon. Scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in or after ...

The instrument will track how the magnetosphere expands and contracts, as well as other shape changes caused by varying strengths of solar wind from the vantage point of the moon, providing a ...

it will boot up 10 NASA science experiments that will conduct studies on lunar regolith (moon dust), the radiation ...

one of which requires the collecting of Moon dust to measure radiation on the lunar surface. Another will observe Earth's magnetic field, also known as the magnetosphere, and how it interacts with ...

X-ray imaging will provide us with invaluable high-resolution views of Earth’s magnetosphere. Temperature Structure and Thermal Evolution LMS will help us study lunar crustal and magnetic fields while ...

Upon landing on the moon's surface, the instrument will power ... "We expect to see the magnetosphere breathing out and breathing in, for the first time," Hyunju Connor, an astrophysicist at ...

and timing around the moon. X-ray imaging of Earth’s magnetosphere will gauge how solar wind affects its magnetic field to better inform weather predictions, GPS protection, and satellite ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission to the moon has captured stunning video of the Earth eclipsing the sun, as seen from space.

The company previously attempted a moon landing with its Hakuto-R lander ... The experiment could help scientists watch processes occurring in the magnetosphere that they've never seen before. "We ...

The company previously attempted a moon landing with its Hakuto-R lander ... could help scientists watch processes occurring in the magnetosphere that they've never seen before.