The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on Jan. 15, and ...

On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured from Earth orbit. One shows ...

For the past week, an uncrewed lunar lander has been journeying through outer space on a 60-day mission to the moon on behalf ...

When they do, we have a lunar eclipse as Earth's shadow ... different angles of its illumination by the sun. As it orbits Earth, the moon will show different illuminated parts based on the angle ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

On January 18, the team at Firefly carried out Blue Ghost’s first engine burn, firing up the lander’s thrusters and main ...

As humankind imagines living off-planet -- on the moon, Mars and beyond -- the question of how to sustain life revolves around the physical necessities of oxygen, food and water. We know there is ...

The next full moon, known as the snow moon, will rise in mid-February. Stargazers can see it illuminate the skies in the ...

In the short clip below, a time-lapse shows the sun quickly eclipsed as ... carrying a slew of moon-investigation instruments like a lunar regolith vacuum and analyzer, will try landing in Mare ...

If the sky is clear, many Americans, depending on their location, should have a clear view of the total lunar eclipse from late March 13 into the early morning of March 14. The upcoming lunar ...

Lion dancers prepare to enter one of the local businesses on Argyle Street during the Argyle Lunar New Year Parade in Uptown last year. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times file Share Communities across the ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon ... sun similar to Earth’s orbit. The possibility that this belt is made of lunar ...