"Children of the Sky" will be beamed back to Earth as part of the upcoming Intuitive Machines IM-2 moon lander mission.

Two giant holes in the Sun could create impactful space weather for Earth in early February. Recent NOAA satellite images show two coronal holes, areas on the surface of the Sun with cooler plasma.

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Researchers said the planet has a mass six times greater than our Earth's and orbits in a "habitable zone" of a star similar to the sun. While located 20 light-years away, scientists believe the ...

Because its orbit around the sun closely matches Earth's, astronomers determined that the "mini-moon" likely originated from nearby in our solar system. Now, research published this month in the ...

A new image from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission shows the spacecraft’s first glimpse of the moon. Launched nearly two weeks ago, the spacecraft is headed to the moon where it aims to ...

They are areas where the Sun's magnetic fields have opened up ... That gaseous material is on its way to Earth, blowing out at speeds of more than 310 miles per second. Per Spaceweather.com ...

America's next Moon lander, Blue Ghost, is traveling through space after launching from Florida earlier this month and capturing breathtaking views. About a week after launch, the spacecraft looked ...

A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually ... the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s, suggesting ...

Take 2024 PT5, a bus-sized asteroid that drifted near Earth last year. Recent research reveals this might not have been just another run-of-the-mill asteroid—it might be a chunk of the Moon ...

This lunar phase sees the moon roughly between the Earth and the sun, making the moon invisible but the night skies free from moonlight. That makes tonight the very best of the month for ...