The second image captured by the Blue Ghost lander shows the lander sitting on the moon's surface with a distant pale blue dot — Earth — in the background. If you take a closer look at Earth reflected ...

That's because the Earth is orbiting the sun ... referring to the cosmic microwave background. That's the faint radiation left over from the Big Bang that fills all of space.

The two images released Thursday morning show the six-legged Nova-C lander with Earth in the background. Intuitive Machines shared the photos within about 13 hours of the spacecraft launching to ...