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NASA has selected Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen as the crew for the Artemis 2 mission. They are scheduled to launch no ...
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost mission successfully makes a Moon landing, marking a milestone for NASA and its commercial partners.
In March 1968, the Soviet Union had a partial success with Zond 4. With this launch, they were able to take the spacecraft ...
The winners of the 2025 ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year Award have been revealed, showcasing a spectacular selection ...
On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...
Webb uncovers methane on Makemake, showing the icy dwarf planet is more active than once thought - just like Pluto.
For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers now confirm that this small body, named 2025 PN7, is traveling in a special ...
September is a special month for the planet as it reaches opposition. This means Earth will find itself in between Saturn and ...
Scientists using NASA’s Perseverance rover have captured visible green auroras on Mars and developed tools to predict them. Planetary scientists say they can now forecast when a green aurora will ...
Galaxies, Auroras, the Moon, our Sun, planets and more – the Royal Observatory Greenwich reveals the winners of the ZWO ...
So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...
Aside from 2025 PN7, there are 7 other quasi-moons, according to the Planetary Society, which they refer to as “a gravitational sleight of hand.” From our terrestrial point of view, they may appear to ...