Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

Built by Firefly Aerospace, a startup in Texas, Blue Ghost was launched from Earth in January and pulled into orbit around the moon in mid-February. A couple of weeks later, it took this video ...

Triton orbits Neptune in the opposite direction from the rest of ... yoinked out of the Kuiper Belt and into a wonky Neptune orbit. The Moon, Williams and Zugger say, has an orbit around Earth ...

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As of this writing, the three lunar landers are either currently in the moon’s orbit or hurtling their way toward it. The first two landers—one operated by Texas-based company Firefly ...

Not that it was a competition, but Saturn surpassed Jupiter in known moons a few years ago. Now the giant planet may never ...

The moon is the place to be this week ... so it’s possible that it could be on its side or facing the wrong direction. The good news for the Intuitive Machines team is that the solar panels ...

SOCHI, October 20. /TASS/. The option of creating an international station in a high near-Moon orbit with a 70,000 km apogee (the Moon orbit’s farthest point from the Earth’s center ...

"Athena continues to be in excellent health and is expected to send lunar orbit selfies over the next two days before a landing attempt on March 6." ...

For example, gravitational attraction between the Earth and the Moon keeps the Moon in ... quantity that depends on speed and direction. The object in orbit is accelerating, even though its ...

Intuitive Machines' second lunar lander has made it to the moon. The Athena lander fired its engines for eight minutes and 12 seconds on Monday (March 3), slowing the spacecraft down and entering ...