Scientific objectives include analysis of lunar regolith properties, investigation of the interactions between solar wind and Earth’s magnetic field, the evaluation of long-distance Global ...

Credit: Firefly Aerospace A robotic spacecraft has beamed home crisp videos and snapshots of Earth eclipsing the moon. Though lunar eclipses ... moon in the distant background.

showcasing the lunar surface – which is pot marked with craters, as well as the Earth looming in the background. It’s an iconic image in and of itself and helps to solidify South Korea’s ...

Apollo 15 (1971), commanded by Dave Scott with Jim Irwin as his lunar module pilot, found the crew caught up in a scandal upon their return to Earth. The pair, along with Command Module Pilot Al ...

So far, 2024 PT5 is just the second object in an Earth-like orbit of purported lunar origin. Astronomers found asteroid 469219 Kamo’oalewa in 2016, which was also likely ejected from the lunar ...

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an Apollo 11 astronaut about to become one of the first humans to set foot beyond Earth. Just days later, lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin would be following mission commander Neil Armstrong onto ...

Blue Ghost, the "little lander" from Firefly Aerospace that's headed to the moon, has captured the littlest lunar eclipse ever ... the lander has been camped out in Earth orbit, undergoing ...

(CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week.