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Bus-Size Asteroid Flew Closer Than The Moon - Watch The Orbit Animation

Asteroid 2024 DW flew about 139,000 miles (224,000 km) away from Earth. The space rock was estimated to be about 43 feet wide ...

NASA’s next Moonship reaches last stop before launch pad

The next stop was a nearby building where the Launch Abort System was installed on the Orion spacecraft. The tower-like abort ...

As the U.S. and China race to the moon, America's hopes rest on SpaceX — and it's behind

China aims to put its astronauts on the moon by 2030. For NASA to get back there first, it needs SpaceX to quickly complete ...

NASA has a wild plan to return astronauts to the moon. Here’s why experts are starting to worry

Calls for the US to land astronauts back on the moon before China have been increasingly loud and frequent. But it all hinges on SpaceX’s Starship.
Wired

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Wins Contract to Take NASA Rover to the Moon

The Amazon founder’s space company will transport NASA's VIPER rover to the lunar south pole—if it proves capable of delivering a payload to the moon in an upcoming mission. NASA’s VIPER lunar rover ...

NASA considers using nuclear bombs to destroy Moon-bound ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4

If asteroid 2024 YR4 hits the Moon, it could launch dust and small rocks into space, creating micrometeoroid debris in low ...
Mashable

NASA canceled a moon rover mission last year. Suddenly, it's back.

A partnership with Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company will revive a previously canceled NASA mission to send the VIPER rover to the moon. Credit: NASA NASA just brought back from the dead a science ...
Gizmodo

NASA Couldn’t Get Its Rover to the Moon, So Blue Origin Will Do It Instead

NASA’s water-hunting lunar rover was given a second chance to reach the surface of the Moon. Blue Origin will deliver VIPER to the Moon on an upcoming lunar lander mission, resurrecting the ...
TechSpot

NASA studies plan to destroy asteroid with nuclear bombs before it can hit the Moon

Let's bomb space: First discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 is drawing growing attention from the international space community. Scientists are now exploring options to address this ...
CNET

NASA Is Sending Astronauts to Circle the Moon in February 2026: What to Know

It's been more than 50 years since astronauts last went to the moon, and yet few NASA missions stir the kind of excitement that the Apollo program once did. But now, NASA has new moon plans. The ...
USA Today

NASA unveils date range for 1st crewed Artemis moon mission. Here's when it could happen

NASA's Artemis program is the agency's ambitious campaign to return Americans to the surface of the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. The upcoming Artemis II represents the first crewed U ...