American private space company Blue Origin managed to simulate the gravity of the Moon for about two minutes during New Shepard flight ...

Because the Moon is over a quarter the diameter of Earth, the Earth-Moon system is often cited as the pairing in our Solar ...

Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

The Florida Museum isn’t the first institution to send fossils into space. Small fossils of a bat, several dinosaurs, a crinoid, a hominid and a trilobite have also made the journey there and back.

Of all the planets in our solar system apart from Earth, Saturn tends to steal the show with its breathtaking rings, which have fascinated people for centuries.

But planets around red dwarfs are also likely to be “tidally locked”—always presenting one side to the star, in the same way our moon shows only one face to the Earth. This would render half ...

Partners use Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket to test out technologies bound for the moon—without actually sending them there ...

Blue Origin’s NS-29 mission simulated Moon gravity to support lunar research, with key experiments funded by NASA.

With the grant, Fleet Space will develop off-world MEMS gravity ... on Earth as part of Fleet Space’s terrestrial end-to-end exploration platform, ExoSphere. By deploying SPIDER on the Moon ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Feb. 11, 2025, the moon is 13 days old, and approaching the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 98% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time ...