Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Bids Farewell to Earth on Its Way to the Moon
The Blue Ghost mission launched on Wednesday, January 15, on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and is currently around halfway ...
Back to the Moon: A space lawyer and planetary scientist on what it will take to share the benefits of new lunar exploration – podcast
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly, we speak with two people – a planetary scientist who studies the geology of the Moon, and a space lawyer who studies space policy and geopolitics – about ...
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Welcome to the moon! Firefly's Blue Ghost lander reaches lunar orbit (video, photos)
Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...
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The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...
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How the Moon became a place
For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...
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Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander leaves Earth orbit to head for the moon
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is now headed for the moon after firing its engines to send it out of Earth orbit.
Firefly’s Blue Ghost Snaps a Breathtaking Earth Selfie on Its Way to the Moon
Blue Ghost has left Earth’s orbit, carrying NASA’s science to the Moon. Instruments are performing well, including a ...
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There’s a tiny chance the asteroid headed for Earth could hit the moon
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on a potential crash course with Earth, but there’s a very slight chance the moon could take the hit. Based on current observations, there is a 2.1 per cent chance that the ...
How to stop an asteroid hitting Earth: Would people co-operate to face a global peril?
On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...
'God Comes With A Hair Dryer' Review | An Enduring Sense Of Hope
God Comes with a Hair Dryer by Anandi Kar is an anthology of poems brimming with nostalgia, resilience, and a yearning for ...
Watch NASA’s ‘launch to splashdown’ video for Artemis II lunar mission
NASA has released a detailed animation (above) showing how the Artemis II mission will look from launch to splashdown.The ...
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An Inside Look At How Humanity Is Dealing With The Threat Of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Katy is Managing Editor at IFLScience where she oversees editorial content from News articles to Features, and even occasionally writes some.