NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II mission is slated to return astronauts to the Moon no sooner than April 2026. First, Lunar ...

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There’s a new high-tech vacuum about to step into the spotlight. NASA is sending a vacuum cleaner to the moon with the Blue Ghost mission, set to launch this month. The space agency isn’t ...

Both systems include a moon that is a ... support Pluto's active geology and possible subsurface ocean, despite its location at the frozen edge of the solar system. A NASA postdoctoral researcher ...

NASA's LEXI instrument is set to land on the moon's surface sometime this month. Using X-ray sensors, the device will watch Earth's atmosphere "breathing out and breathing in" to uncover key space ...

Next week, a new lander will be launched to the moon carrying ... of the CLPS initiative at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. “These instruments will study geologic processes and lunar ...

this would be the real half moon)," NASA wrote in its moon guide. "The moon is opposite the sun, as viewed from Earth, revealing the moon's dayside." The full moon actually appears full before it ...

To get a global view of Earth’s magnetosphere, NASA’s Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI) is set for a trip to the moon. Scheduled to take off from the Kennedy Space Center in or after ...

The moon’s Mare Crisium, thought to have been molded billions of years ago by volcanic activity, is a vast, haunting landscape. It’s only fitting that NASA is sending a Blue Ghost to explore it.

A new robot is set to capture the first global images of Earth's magnetic field "breathing" in and out from the surface of the moon, NASA has announced. The Lunar Environment Heliospheric X-ray ...