Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In 2019, the National Institute of Standards and Technology quietly launched a program with the ambitious goal of capturing moonlight, ...

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the daytime. Researchers at Yunnan Observatories under the Chinese Academy of ...

Viasat, Inc. has announced its collaboration with SSTL and MDA Space to design a lunar orbiting communications satellite system as part of the European Space Agency's Moonlight program. Aiming for ...

The range of possible locations – represented by yellow points – of 2024 YR4 on Dec. 22, 2032. The range decreased from April to June as we gained more data and improved our certainty of the ...

Successful launches are helping Jeff Bezos’ company set up missions to ferry cargo—and eventually astronauts—to the lunar surface.

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...

Lanteris Space Systems, formerly Maxar Space Systems, had diversified from its traditional base of work on large GEO satellites to smaller LEO ones. Credit: Lanteris Space Systems WASHINGTON — ...