NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back stunning photos of Jupiter, including colorful, chaotic storms swirling through the ...

The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of Earth and the moon. The Hera spacecraft successfully launched toward the ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...

"Asteroids and comets with a perihelion distance (closest to the Sun) less than 1.3 astronomical units (AU), or approximately ...

Earth is a profoundly isolated rock. The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set against the black ether of space.

Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images) The "Pink Moon" was the first full moon since the total solar eclipse across North America on April 8. While only a new moon—one that is between the Earth and the ...

City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) During an eclipse season a New Moon that’s relatively close to Earth can block out 100% of the Sun’s disk and cause a total solar eclipse. The duration of ...

"On Thursday 10 October and Friday 11 October, Hera’s asteroid deck, which houses the spacecraft’s instruments, was pointed back towards our planet and three of its instruments captured their first ...

and this is a supermoon because the moon was close to Earth. Got all that? That’s good. Because we’ve got some beautiful images to get to from the supermoon of October 2024. Here they are: ...

How do you get ready for a moon mission? The Artemis 2 astronauts practiced a day in space ahead of their historic liftoff in ...

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