Research Fellow Dr. Babak Bakhit has encountered one of his most challenging projects to date—contributing to the European ...
A small uncrewed spacecraft is buzzing the moon, with under two weeks remaining before its bold attempt to land on the lunar ...
The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...
The moon's orbit is elliptical, or oval-shaped, meaning as its distance from our planet changes, its apparent size changes, ...
As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...
A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...
Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...
Scientists say the threat of a newly discovered asteroid has risen slightly in the past few weeks as the world's telescopes rush to track its course ...
The space rock is heading in our direction at some 18,700 miles per hour, according to the space agency's data.
A pair of astrophysicists with Aix- Marseille Université, CNRS, and Institut Universitaire de France have developed a new ...