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Orion re-acquired signal with NASA’s Deep Space Network, at 7:59 a.m. EST after successfully performing the outbound powered flyby burn at 7:44 a.m. EST with a firing of the orbital maneuvering system engine for 2 minutes and 30…

Comment on this storyCommentFive days after launching from the Kennedy Space Center, NASA’s Orion spacecraft reached the moon Monday, passing within 81 miles of the lunar surface and marking the completion of a key step in the space…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts. It’s the first time a…

By Katherine Schauer and Danny Baird, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center August 8, 2022Illustration of Lunar IceCube in orbit investigating lunar ice. Credit: Morehead State UniversityLunar IceCube, <span…

Launch of a SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket, with the KPLO Moon mission. SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up the skies over Cape Canaveral in Florida yesterday evening, taking with it South Korea’s first Moon…

A live broadcast of the launch on Friday morning in South Korea showed the orbiter "Danuri" -- which means "enjoy the moon" -- successfully separating from the Falcon 9 rocket.Developed by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI),…

For the first time, scientists have grown plants in lunar regolith, the mixture of rock and dust that covers the surface of the Moon*.  This is very cool.  Regolith is nasty stuff. It’s made of pretty fine grains of…

May's full moon will have stargazers seeing red.The moon will glow a scarlet color during this year's…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — For the first time, scientists have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.Researchers had no idea if anything would sprout in the harsh moon dirt and wanted to see if it…

Sunset in the Bay Area this Sunday will come with a rare treat: a blood moon, during a total lunar eclipse.What’s more, since the moon will be near its perigee, or closest point to Earth, it will also be considered a “supermoon.” …