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Wow! Private lunar lander watches 'diamond ring' eclipse from the surface of the moon (photo)

By Brett Tingley published

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander witnessed a solar eclipse during what we on Earth saw as a total lunar eclipse on March 14, 2025.

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person standing looking at the blood moon above

What is a blood moon?

By Scott Dutfield, Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Reference It may look spooky, but a blood moon is just a trick of the light. Here we explain this phenomenon and tell you how and where to see the next one.

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'Their loss diminishes us all': Scientists emphasize how Trump's mass NOAA layoffs endanger the world

By Monisha Ravisetti, Sharmila Kuthunur published

"From our perspective down in the trenches actually working for the government, it feels like the people up top just have no clue about anything."

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Screenshot from a video of the March 2 touchdown of Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander, which was captured by the onboard NASA payload SCALPSS.

Watch moon dust fly as private Blue Ghost lunar lander touches down (video)

By Mike Wall published

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander just beamed home up-close video of its epic March 2 touchdown, showing how its thrusters kicked up plumes of lunar dust.

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a small moon is silhouetted against a planet in the light blue hue of near-infrared

Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)

By Keith Cooper published

Europe's HERA mission has taken a good look at Mars and its moon Deimos on its way to explore the aftermath of the DART impact in the Didymos–Dimorphos asteroid system.

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Saturn officially has 128 more moons

By Stefanie Waldek published

The grand total of Saturnian moons is now 274.

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Saturn has 124 moons, Five of Saturn's moons from left to right are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas and Rhea. Saturn is on the right.

Saturn's moons: Facts about the weird and wonderful satellites of the ringed planet

By Daisy Dobrijevic last updated

Reference Saturn has the most moons of any other planet in the solar system. Here we explore some of the 274 moons that orbit the ringed planet.

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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft captured this shot of Intuitive Machines' Athena lander on the moon on March 7, 2025.

Dead Athena moon lander seen inside its crater grave from lunar orbit (photos)

By Mike Wall published

Intuitive Machines' Athena lander died inside a small crater near the moon's south pole, photos by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show.

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An illustration of a red dwarf (left) and a white dwarf (center) orbiting each other.

Astronomers crack the case of a mysterious deep space radio signal that repeats every 2 hours

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers have traced a starnge blast of radiowaves that repeats every 2 hours back to a dead star white dwarf magnetically slamming its stellar companion.

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A false-color image taken with MegaCam on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) as part of the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) shows a zoomed-in view of the newly discovered Andromeda XXXV satellite galaxy. A white ellipse, that measures about 1,000 light-years across its longest axis, shows the extent of the galaxy. Within the ellipse's boundary is a cluster of mostly dim stars, ranging in hues from bright blues to warm yellows.

Scientists discover smallest galaxy ever seen: 'It's like having a perfectly functional human being that's the size of a grain of rice'

By Robert Lea published

Astronomers have discovered the smallest dwarf galaxy ever seen. It is a mystery how the satellite galaxy of Andromeda survived the blistering conditions of the early universe.

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