The moon, however, may not be in the clear. When first discovered in December, Asteroid 2024 YR4 had a small but notable chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to information from NASA's ...

NASA and private space company Firefly have released unprecedented images showing an eclipse and a sunset from the Moon. The video clips and accompanying pictures provide ...

This means that missions in cislunar space, the area of space between Earth and the moon, could also rely on GNSS signals for navigation fixes. Traditionally, NASA engineers track spacecraft by ...

NASA and the Italian Space Agency's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment succeeded in its first attempt to acquire Earth-based navigation signals from the moon on March 3, 2025. Credit: NASA / Dave Ryan ...

On January 21, the instrument broke NASA’s record for highest altitude GNSS signal acquisition at 209,900 miles from Earth while traveling to the moon. That record continued to rise during Blue ...

This marks the first time humans have ever used GPS on the Moon. “On Earth we can use GNSS signals to navigate in everything from smartphones to airplanes,” NASA’s Kevin Coggins said in a ...

NASA's Artemis program aims to use the Moon as a stepping stone for human exploration of Mars. Artemis II, scheduled for 2026, will be the first crewed mission of the program, orbiting the Earth ...

Credit: NASA/Dave Ryan NASA has achieved a global (and beyond) first by accessing the Earth's GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) from the Moon. This development, which makes it possible to ...

The new milestone means NASA ... Earth. There are several GNSS constellations provided by governments around the world, including GPS, Galileo, BeiDou, and GLONASS. LuGRE was taken to the Moon ...

NASA calculated that the asteroid will be nearest to the Earth and the Moon in December 2032. This is an important time, as the trajectory of the asteroid is now closely monitored to see the exact ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — On Friday, NASA unveiled the massive Artemis ... the spacecraft while in transit to, around the moon and back to earth. Inside the Vehicle Assembly Building, the five ...

Reporting on missions to the moon and beyond ... a science reporter at The Times, covers NASA and the solar system, and research closer to Earth. More about Kenneth Chang Disregarding the Rules ...