Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully ...

The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.

The squat four-legged lander stands 6-foot-6 (2 meters) tall and 11 feet (3.5 meters ... a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo moonwalkers ...

It was not until February 22, 2024, that another American-built spacecraft made a soft landing on the Moon. This was the Nova ...

A privately owned lunar ... lander. It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo ...

The squat four-legged lander stands 6-foot-6 (2 meters) tall and 11 feet (3.5 meters ... Also on board: a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo moonwalkers, ...

(AP) — It’s lights out for the first private lunar lander ... Its first lander put the U.S. back on the moon last year for the first time since the Apollo era after a less-than-perfect landing ...