The Hera probe, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA), has sent back its first images of Earth and the moon as it begins its long journey toward the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system. The ...

The above image—called “Ball of Rock” was taken by Rich Addis from Wallasey on the Wirral in Merseyside, UK. A composite of close-up images of the moon taken through a telescope when 78% ...

In September 2022, NASA’s DART mission did something that seemed only possible in science fiction or mythology: It moved a celestial body. Asteroid Dimorphos, the moon of the much larger asteroid ...

The first view below, taken by Hera's Asteroid Framing Camera, shows Earth's dominant white clouds over the sunlit Pacific ...

One of the first pictures of the far side of the moon. The Moon has been thought to ... So whatever the Chang'e-4 probe tells us about rock formations and craters, it seems certain that the ...

Amusingly, NASA photos even show the duo encountering a ... also tasked with sending collected data about a simulated Moon rock to a nearby team. During Artemis III, NASA plans to use data ...

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light-colored swirls on Moon's surface could be rocks magnetized by magma activity underground, laboratory experiments ... Geologists Expect Chang'e-6 Lunar Surface Samples to Contain Volcanic ...

BILL HARTMANN: One of the pitches to sell that program scientifically was that we were going to be able to go to the moon and find these old rocks from 4.5 billion years ago, and they were going ...

The mission team had already been able to study images of the landing ... more about what's happened on the Moon since it was formed." Being able to pinpoint rocks and examine them in this way ...

The debris from this impact collected in an orbit around Earth to form the Moon. The Apollo missions brought back over a third of a tonne of rock and soil from the Moon. This provided some clues on ...

29), Earth captured a "second moon" that will accompany our planet on its journey around the sun for the next two months. The clingy space rock is actually ... to release images of it.