The European Space Agency's Hera asteroid mission has beamed back its first images from space, capturing a stunning view of ...

The European Space Agency's Hera craft, en route to an asteroid, recently captured footage of our planet and the moon, set ...

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 ...

NASA images provide insights into the sun, moon, planets, and stars. Recent highlights include solar flares, Jupiter's ...

the Earth came into view over the moon's horizon. The crew reacted with astonishment to the beautiful sight, snapping photographs and expressing their excitement. These images would become some of ...

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

The Hunter's supermoon was suitably imposing and Kaiju-like, as seen in Toronto, Ontario in Canada, as it was imaged by Mert ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Gurdogan/Anadolu via Getty Images) The “Cold Moon” is the 13th full moon of 2023 because a lunar year (12 orbits of the moon around Earth) lasts 354 days. Since Earth’s solar year lasts 365 ...

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: ...

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