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A small asteroid has been quietly following Earth’s orbit for decades—unseen, unbothered and, until recently, completely ...
Russia’s Luna 25 uncrewed lunar lander was launched in 2023 amid heightened international competition, attempting to achieve ...
A supermoon occurs when a full or new moon falls during the closest point in the moon's orbit to Earth, NASA said. The full ...
As of Tuesday, Sept. 16, the moon phase is Waning Crescent, and it is 28% lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's Daily ...
A private lunar lander from Japan is now circling the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown. Tokyo-based ispace said Wednesday morning its Resilience lander entered lunar ...
A near-Earth asteroid lurked undetected for decades until a telescope in Hawaii spotted it earlier this year. It may be Earth ...
Earth has a new quasi-moon, which is called 2025 PN7. A new paper has revealed that it has been orbiting near our planet ...
On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth ...
In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...
The Soviet Union’s successful Zond-5 space mission in 1968 prompted NASA to speed up the Apollo program—ultimately driving it ...