There’s a new high-tech vacuum about to step into the spotlight. NASA is sending a vacuum cleaner to the moon with the Blue Ghost mission, set to launch this month. The space agency isn’t ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander was launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 and deployed for a 45-day trip to the moon on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (NASA) “I had the urge to say ...

NASA added in many lunar and lunisolar calendars the months change with the new moon and full moons come in the middle of the lunar month. The New Moon, which comes on Jan. 29, will be the Chinese ...

For example, he has rarely criticized NASA or its overall goal to return humans to the moon through the Artemis program. Rather, Musk, who has long preferred Mars as a destination for humans ...

"According to [Maine's Farmers] almanac, as the full moon in January this is the Wolf Moon, from the packs of wolves heard howling outside the villages amid the cold and deep snows of winter," NASA ...

9), a lineup of NASA leaders were asked to address concerns that the upcoming Trump administration may derail the space agency’s Artemis program to go back to the Moon and instead focus on Mars ...

hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse, according to NASA. Related: What you can see in the night sky tonight On the nights before and after a new moon, when just a thin crescent ...

[Related: NASA is designing a time zone just for the moon.] A single second’s length is experienced differently depending on gravitational force and relative velocity. An astronaut on the moon ...

The Blue Ghost lander will carry 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the lunar surface to further understand the Moon and help prepare for future human missions. Credit: NASA/Frank Michaux ...

Earth won't experience another Blue Moon until 2026. Here we explore this phenomenon in more detail. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

The moon’s Mare Crisium, thought to have been molded billions of years ago by volcanic activity, is a vast, haunting landscape. It’s only fitting that NASA is sending a Blue Ghost to explore it.