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

One of those came March 2, when the robotic craft built by Cedar Park’s Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial ...

Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

Texas-based Firefly Aerospace managed to stay upright when it landed on the moon two weeks ago and announced Monday it had ...

And it's a wrap. A little more than two weeks after it touched down on the surface of the Moon, the lander called Blue Ghost ...

Reliant Space is proud to announce its critical role in supporting Firefly Aerospace’s control room operations for its historic Blue Ghost Mission 1, which ...

After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from ...

The event marks the first time a commercial company has been able to actively operate on the moon and observe a total solar eclipse.

While Earthlings were watching the moon turn blood red during Friday morning’s lunar eclipse, a robotic lander on the moon was looking back and getting a very different – and very rare – view.

The Blue Ghost mission to the moon has deployed one its NASA instruments, drilling into the moon's surface to collect ...

launched its lunar lander Athena to the moon in late February, but the craft had a rough touchdown, landing in a crater and flipping over on its side. Athena landed about 820 feet away from its ...

The site is the farthest south of any lunar soft-landing. Initially, mission control reported that it had powered down some flight systems and that the craft was generating solar power — a good ...