The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

Astronomers measure a star’s brightness using the apparent magnitude system, where lower values indicate brighter stars.

Both NASA and Firefly Aerospace say Blue Ghost remains healthy as it prepares to make for lunar orbit sometime next month.

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could ...

NASA's Parker Solar Probe achieved a groundbreaking milestone. As the first Earth-originating vehicle to do so, it approached within about 4 million miles of the Sun, simultaneously racing through its ...

Blue Ghost, a lunar lander carrying 10 NASA instruments, successfully executed its first main engine burn as part of its ...

The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission to the moon has captured stunning video of the Earth eclipsing the sun, as seen from space.

The ESA Solar Orbiter has provided a stunning new look at the Sun by combining 25 high-resolution images. This mosaic offers a detailed view of the solar surface, including sunspots and granules, ...

While the Sun appears larger in the sky than at any other time of year, and the Earth would receive the most radiation from it, a 3% difference in the Earth's distance from the Sun is hardly ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...