Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private mission and delivering 10 NASA instruments to the Moon. The mission ...

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 successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully completed its two-week mission on the Moon, becoming the first fully ...

Before its mission came to an end, the Blue Ghost lander captured one more incredible view of sunset seen from the moon.The ...

These next two weeks bring us a potentially thrilling partial eclipse of the sun and amazing sights of Venus in its once-every-eight-years steepest departure from the evening sky.

There was an opportunity Thursday night to catch the March 2025 "Blood Moon," a phenomenon that colors the full moon in ...

March marked a milestone in private space exploration as Texas-based Firefly Aerospace successfully landed its first robotic ...