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 ...

Athena will land in the moon's Mons Mouton region at 12:32 p.m. EST.

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While in lunar orbit, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured an image of the Moon’s south pole on the far left. Firefly Aerospace The hits from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission to the ...

A private spacecraft carrying NASA instruments to the surface of the moon in preparation for astronauts to return in the years ahead has reached lunar orbit about a month into its spaceflight.

A recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal reveals that the moon ... Earth's orbit by mid-November 2024. Its fleeting presence offers astronomers valuable insights into tracking ...

Credit: Firefly Aerospace There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission. Firefly's lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, entered orbit ...

The engine burn, which started at 3:09 a.m. ET and lasted three minutes and 18 seconds, moved the lander, which had been in a high elliptical orbit around the Moon since February 13, into a lower ...

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