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 ...

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 ...

Nine months is a long time to be in orbit. But Butch Williams and Suni Wilmore aren't alone in facing extraordinary ...

A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon. Firefly Aerospace and NASA ...

It was the second incomplete mission for Intuitive Machines. Its first lander put the U.S. back on the moon last year for the ...

Firefly Aerospace shared a final message from Blue Ghost as the lander's lunar mission came to a close on Sunday.

More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, ...

The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

Just hours after touching down on the surface of the Moon on March 2 aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lander, the ...

While Intuitive Machines' Athena lander quickly met its demise after ... lunar surface — astronauts used a drill during NASA's Apollo 15 mission over half a century ago — it's an exciting ...