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‘Moon Dust on Our Boots’: Texas Company’s Blue Ghost Lands on Lunar Surface
A robotic spacecraft from an American startup gently set down on a lava plain on the moon’s near side early Sunday morning.The Blue Ghost...
Earth’s Mini-Moon Was Probably a Piece of Its Real Moon
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...
After a Naming Contest, Cardea Joins the Celestial Ranks as a Quasi-Moon
For thousands of years, Cardea has been known as the Roman goddess of doorways and transitions, a guardian of thresholds. On Monday, she joined...
Commercial moon lander brakes into orbit, setting stage for historic landing attempt Thursday
The Odysseus lunar lander fired its main engine for six minutes and 48 seconds Wednesday, putting the spacecraft into a 57-mile-high orbit around the...
