The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket and spacecraft completed its moon-gravity mission, but the capsule appeared to have a slight ...

The daughter of a Cape Cod man who had a lifetime fascination with space travel has arranged a special memorial tribute.

NASA has warned two massive asteroids 2025 BS4 and 2025 BH2 are set to come dangerously close to Earth today. Asteroid 2025 ...

The second visit of asteroid Apophis in 2036, also on April 13, heralds the coming of the Messiah and the beginning of a new ...

Future missions led by Firefly will be to the moon's far side and will include delivering a satellite that will orbit the region ... lunar night as the Earth blocks the sun.

due to the moon's rotation. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four ...

While this may sound like an immense distance, it's pretty close on a cosmic scale: the moon orbits ... is one that has an orbit intersecting the Earth's orbit around the Sun by less than 0. ...

Blue Origin launched its massive new rocket on its first test flight Thursday, sending up a prototype satellite to orbit thousands of miles above Earth ... and also to the moon.

First spotted in August 2024 by the University of Hawaiʻi’s ATLAS telescope, this small, 33-foot-wide asteroid has been orbiting the Sun in a ... be captured by Earth’s gravity. While not technically ...

Oct. 4, 2022 — Most theories claim the Moon formed out of the debris of a collision between the Earth and an object about the size of Mars, called Theia, coalescing in orbit over months or years ...

Even after the Sun sets, the solar-powered lander will operate for several hours into the frigid lunar night, transmitting vital data back to Earth ... on the Moon. This collaborative model ...