A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is gearing up for launch, riding on a SpaceX Falcon 9 as part of the IM-2 mission. This small yet ...
Read more: How Long Is Each Moon Phase? Unfortunately, scientists are still trying to understand fully the variations at play regarding the temporary capture of asteroids by Earth's gravity.
However, these bodies became forever linked in orbit – thanks to gravity. This “kiss and capture” mechanism ... particularly about Pluto and its largest moon Charon. Scientists have long ...
The Blue Ghost touchdown kicks off two weeks of around-the-clock research by NASA science and technology payloads.
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
Capture theory suggests that the Moon was a wandering body (like an asteroid) that formed elsewhere in the solar system and was captured by Earth's gravity as it passed nearby. The accretion ...
the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months to gradually line up for capture into lunar orbit. NASA's Lunar Trailblazer arrived in Florida ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost landed on the moon at 2:34 a.m. It’s expected to operate for two weeks, conducting NASA ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully made a soft touchdown near an ancient volcanic feature on the moon’s ...