For the first time in more than half a century, humans are preparing to leave Earth’s orbit and head near the moon, with NASA ...

Discover how the moon's gravity altered Chandrayaan-3's propulsion module orbit, creating a new trajectory in space ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the binary asteroid system Didymos in November ...

The moon will soon be joined by a new dance partner around the Earth's gravitational pull. But its new pal will stay for only a song or two before returning to the dark of the night. An asteroid, ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has made it to the moon. Blue Ghost fired its engines for four minutes and 15 seconds on Thursday (Feb. 13), injecting itself into an elliptical lunar orbit ahead ...

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they don't have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out ...

The Odysseus lunar lander fired its main engine for six minutes and 48 seconds Wednesday, putting the spacecraft into a 57-mile-high orbit around the moon and setting the stage for a landing try ...

A small asteroid will be pulled into orbit around the Earth as a “mini-moon” later this month before the space rock departs into other parts of the solar system. The 10m-wide asteroid, dubbed 2024 PT5 ...

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