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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

While Intuitive Machines' Athena lander quickly met its ... the first mission to drill into the lunar surface — astronauts used a drill during NASA's Apollo 15 mission over half a century ...

While parts of the Earth experienced a total lunar eclipse early ... In 1967, NASA’s Surveyor 3 lander, which had been sent to gather data in preparation for the Apollo missions, captured ...

(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 ...

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 ... a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo moonwalkers ...

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 ...