Many photos McCarthy has taken of the space station in the past show the ship as a silhouette in Earth's shadow. This time he ...

Both spacecraft had since been orbiting Earth, preparing for transit to the moon. Blue Ghost later performed a trajectory-correction maneuver on Feb. 9 to refine the spacecraft's path and keep it ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but there’s a very slight chance the moon could take the hit. Based on current observations, there is a 2.1 per cent chance that the ...

The initial trajectory correction manoeuvre was performed with such precision that a planned second manoeuvre has been ...

These changes in appearance are the phases of the moon. As the moon orbits Earth, it cycles through eight distinct phases. The four primary phases of the moon (new moon, first quarter, full moon ...

Nasa's Artemis program kicked off with Artemis 1 in November 2022. This was an uncrewed Moon-orbiting mission to test the Orion spacecraft, as well as Nasa's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.

Scientists measured a chorus wave emerging from an unexpected place, and confirmed a key piece of a theory about how these ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

Of all Earth’s layers, the inner core is the most remote and mysterious. This solid sphere of iron and nickel is about 70% the size of the moon, with a radius of approximately 759 miles (1,221 ...

Not quite high-altitude planes and not quite low-orbiting satellites ... about to pass in front of the Moon, occupies the increasingly busy region of low Earth orbit (Credit: Getty Images ...