There is currently a 4.3% chance that the giant space rock 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in seven years. If this does happen, ...

A view of Earth and the moon taken using the Hera spacecraft’s Asteroid Framing Camera (AFC) on Oct. 11 from a distance of nearly 1 million miles, or approximately 1.6 million kilometers. (Image ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander may have only just touched down on the moon, but it's already beaming home spectacular ...

Further, this image was taken 268,563 miles away from Earth. This is the furthest that a spacecraft designed for humans has ever gone. As such, Orion has provided a unique photo of the Moon and ...

Photos show much of the moon covered by the Earth's shadow. The full "Blood Worm Moon" is seen during a total lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025, in Merritt Island, Florida.

With Earth's shadow cast over it, the moon appears to us to be dimmer and more reddish than usual. Blue Ghost witnessed something entirely different from the lunar surface.

On Jan. 27, Blue Ghost captured the first images of the moon in the distance days after it fired its engines in a critical burn to raise its apogee – the point when it is furthest from Earth in ...

Many of these photos were taken in his spare time, although, like all astronauts, he also does photography for Earth observation and ISS maintenance purposes. Originally posted on Space.com . TOPICS ...

This image shows the Moon’s surface, Earth on the horizon, and Blue Ghost’s top deck with its solar panel, X-band antenna (left), and LEXI payload (right) in the view. Firefly Aerospace ...

Early Friday morning, the Earth moved between the sun and the moon, casting its shadow on the lunar surface and turning it into a full blood moon. It was quite early in the morning, though. Like 1 ...

The first space rock, asteroid 2011 UL21, passed by Earth on June 27 at a distance of 4.1 million miles (6.6 million kilometers), or 17 times the distance between Earth and the moon.

A rare lunar event can be seen in the skies over the UK tonight, with a full Strawberry Moon visible for the first time in nearly twenty years - and it will not reappear until 2043 ...