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

Now another U.S. company — Firefly Aerospace — on Sunday added its lunar lander to the win ... moon’s winners and losers: The Soviet Union’s Luna 9 successfully touches down on the moon ...

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

The lander’s first shot was taken from its top deck, and also includes portions of the X-band antenna (left), Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (center), and Lunar Magnetotelluric ...

Blue Ghost completed 14 days of surface operations, deploying its various payloads and transmitting more than 119 gigabytes ...

the lander wasted no time and kicked off its Subsurface Thermal Exploration with Rapidity (LISTER) experiment. The goal is to drill into the lunar surface within the Mare Crisium, a massive basin ...

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the moon through a NASA-sponsored ...