After the space agency canceled its VIPER rover, an empty space was available on a private spacecraft that will still head to ...

A bevy of space companies will lend a hand to NASA's moon goals under new contracts centered around the agency's upcoming ...

Jeff Bezos' rocket company has given NASA a brief taste of the moon's gravity without straying too far from home ...

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New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

The moon's Schrödinger impact basin near the south pole holds two grand canyons formed by an enormous asteroid collision 3.8 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

bringing it closer than the Moon. The other two, 2025 BU3 and 2025 BJ2, will pass at much safer distances of 813,000 miles and 3.6 million miles, respectively. According to NASA, none of these ...

hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse, according to NASA. Related: What you can see in the night sky tonight On the nights before and after a new moon, when just a thin crescent ...

NASA said it would do that “as soon as practical ... The organization said that more than 90 important sites on the moon could risk destruction if space tourism is left unregulated.