Thanks to a new radar technique employed by NASA, India’s first lunar probe that went missing about eight years ago has finally been found. The Indian Space Research Organisation launched its first ...

A mockup of NASA's Lunar Trailblazer, with the Moon in background. Illustration: Lockheed Martin Space NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer is officially in Florida and integrated with a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

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The Firefly mission Ghost Riders in the Sky is part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program of the US space agency NASA (National Aeronautics And Space Administration). As part of ...

Pakistan today launched its first lunar orbit mission ICUBE-Q. The lunar mission was launched on board China's Chang'E6 Lunar Probe from Hainan, China. ICUBE-Q has been designed and developed by the ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 13, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

Chinese AI company DeepSeek upended the global industry and wiped billions off US tech stocks when it unveiled its chatbot ...

Artist's concept of light flares along Sag A*'s accretion disk. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)) ...

A flash of powerful X-ray light coming from a nova explosion on a white dwarf star has caught the attention of astronomers using the Chinese–European Einstein Probe. This nova is especially ...

got $30 million in the deal. The Victus Sol contract comes with Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on its way to the moon on a mission nicknamed Ghost Riders in the Sky. The 330-pound Blue ...