Late last year, a newly discovered asteroid caused quite a stir when initial observations revealed a greater than 1% chance ...

ChaSTE probe on Chandrayaan-3 successfully measures moon's temperature, surpassing previous missions' struggles with thermal ...

This handout photograph taken and released by Firefly Aerospace, March 14, 2025, shows a total lunar eclipse from the Moon's surface captured by Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander captured this image of a sunset from the lunar surface. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial ...

HOUSTON – As the sun set on the Blue Ghost Moon lander, bringing a successful 14-day mission to a close, the robot captured a view only seen by a handful of people as particles on the surface of the ...

Other images from Firefly's lander showed the craft shooting tethered electrodes out onto the lunar surface, like a baseball outfielder trying to throw out a runner at home plate. Firefly's ...

After blasting off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket in January, the robotic lander touched down on the lunar surface March 2, kicking off what was expected to be about a two-week mission utilizing 10 ...

The event occurs when the Earth moves between the sun and the moon, blocking sunlight and casting a shadow over the lunar surface. During totality, light refracted through Earth’s atmosphere ...

Earlybirds in the UK could have caught a glimpse of a partial lunar eclipse on Friday morning (March 14). The rare Blood Moon dipped below the horizon at around 6.32 am today, but some lucky ...

But from the lunar surface, the effect would have been reminiscent of the total solar eclipse many Americans witnessed in April 2024. And if you thought witnessing a total lunar eclipse from Earth ...

Any sunlight that is not blocked by Earth, filters through our atmosphere to the lunar surface, according to the space agency. The same process is what makes the sky blue and sunsets orange-red. NASA ...

A total lunar eclipse happened early Friday morning, and it was visible across all of North America, including New England, but only if you were lucky enough to escape the cloud cover. It was the ...