For decades, scientists have pieced together the moon’s history using samples from its near side, collected during NASA’s Apollo missions. But then in May 2024, China’s Chang’e 6 mission touched down ...
There may be a clear winner in the race between Jupiter and Saturn for the most moons in the Solar System. Saturn officially ...
Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...
The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...
Helium-3 (He-3) on the moon's surface has drawn attention for decades. In 1939, a paper first noted the presence of Helium-3 ...
The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...
Longest commercial Moon mission using Firefly’s composites-intensive Blue Ghost lander completes more than 346 hours of ...
Firefly Aerospace managed to stay upright when it landed on the moon two weeks ago and announced Monday it had completed its ...
A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...
The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...
Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...
Totality, the term used to describe when the moon will be completely shadowed, will occur at 12:26 A.M. Mountain Daylight ...