Why The Moon Turns Red During An Eclipse & How It Looks From Lunar Orbit?

Ernie Wright, a science visualizer at NASA, explains why the moon turns red during a lunar eclipse. Wright also explains how ...

Bus-Size Asteroid Flew Closer Than The Moon - Watch The Orbit Animation

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...
Science Mission Directorate

NASA Selects 2 Instruments for Artemis IV Lunar Surface Science

NASA has selected two science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during the Artemis IV mission to the lunar south polar ...
IFLScience

18 Asteroids Passed Earth Closer Than The Moon In November – All Of Them Were Discovered That Month

Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn must have been particularly impressed by the November crop of new asteroids to have put the 18 ...
Space on MSN

Animation Shows How A 10 Meter Asteroid Passes Earth Closer Than The Moon In Orbit

Asteroid 2023 JF flew about 199,000 miles (320,000 km) away from Earth. It's estimated size is about 34 feet wide (10 meters) ...
Ars Technica

What would a “simplified” Starship plan for the Moon actually look like?

In what will likely be his most consequential act as NASA’s interim leader, Sean Duffy said last month that the space agency was “opening up” its competition to develop a lunar lander that will put ...
New Atlas

SpaceX reveals simpler lander to speed up Moon return

With its metaphorical feet held over the allegorical fire by NASA, SpaceX has released a new, simplified plan to build a lander to put US astronauts back on the Moon now that the competition for the ...
UPI

SpaceX steps up planning for NASA lunar lander

Nov. 2 (UPI) --SpaceX Sunday said it is stepping up its efforts to develop a simplified Human Landing System for NASA as it pursues a plan to return to the moon. SpaceX has been heavily involved in ...
CNN

Inside NASA’s scramble to find a backup moon plan — and the wild ideas companies are pitching

A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the agency’s upcoming moon-landing plans has rocked the space industry. Now, behind the scenes, ...
Ars Technica

SpaceX teases simplified Starship as alarms sound over Moon landing delays

SpaceX on Thursday released the most detailed public update in nearly two years on its multibillion-dollar contract to land astronauts on the Moon for NASA, amid growing sentiment that China is likely ...
The Conversation

With more Moon missions on the horizon, avoiding crowding and collisions will be a growing challenge

Mariel Borowitz has previously received funding from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Department of Defense, and the National Science Foundation. Brian Gunter has current or ...
GPS World

LuGRE mission: NASA and ASI release lunar experiment navigation data

During a public workshop at the Italian Space Agency on Oct. 14-15, the Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) project team celebrated the closure of the project and released the data collected to the ...