Whenever a large amount of mass gathers together in one location, it bends and distorts the fabric of the surrounding space-time, just as the theory of general relativity ... because the moon and the ...

In close partnership with NASA and space exploration company Intuitive Machines, Columbia has developed two textiles that can ...

En route to land on the moon, a spacecraft snapped views of Earth eclipsing the sun. The Blue Ghost lunar lander, built by the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace for NASA, launched to space on ...

But surprisingly, the object’s orbit around the sun is similar to Earth’s ... “We had a general idea that this asteroid may have come from the Moon, but the smoking gun was when we found ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

Blue Ghost was designed to operate on the surface of the moon for one lunar day, or about two Earth weeks. Then, the sun will set on the moon and the lander's batteries will deplete within a few ...

A small asteroid lingered close to our planet in its orbit around the Sun, temporarily caught by Earth ... “We had a general idea that this asteroid may have come from the Moon, but the ...

By Becky Ferreira For a few months last fall, a school-bus-size space rock named 2024 PT5 gained fame as Earth’s new “mini-moon.” Astronomers rushed to study the object while it was still ...

When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...