Analysis from NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies ... A new study suggests Pluto's largest moon, Charon, may have formed through a unique "kiss and capture" event billions of years ...
By Jonathan Corum She broke barriers at NASA and contributed to its earliest ... and caused debris to rain toward Caribbean islands. Charon is large in size relative to Pluto, and is locked ...
Griffin's upcoming debut will be the second lunar mission for Astrobotic. The company's smaller Peregrine moon lander launched in January 2024 on the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance's ...
After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...
Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home.
New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...
China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the ...
“Blue Ghost is a third of its way to the Moon, and we expect to capture even more breathtaking imagery,” Coogan said. “Most importantly, we’ll be capturing critical science data for our ...
The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.
What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 3, 2025, the moon is 5 days old, in the waxing crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 32% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...
The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...
Juno has performed multiple flybys of Io, and images from its latest one show an enormous hotspot near the moon's south pole. Juno was sent to Jupiter to study the giant planet, but that primary ...