The Blue Ghost lunar lander, managed by Texas company Firefly Aerospace, touched down Sunday morning on the moon's near side.

Earth reflecting off one of Blue Ghost’s solar panels with the Moon on the horizon (Picture: Firefly Aerospace/AFP via Getty) Most of us will never get to experience the Overview Effect of ...

The lander also observed and documented the Earth eclipsing the moon – from its vantage, at least – and on Feb. 3 beamed back an incredible "selfie" with Earth in the background. Blue Ghost ...

Without that ... go to Mars, and the hope is that competing private businesses will make space exploration cheaper and easier. Firefly’s Ray Allensworth said the lander skipped over hazards ...

The agreement comes just weeks after the two sides announced China’s Chang’e-8 moon lander mission in 2028 ... for extraterrestrial life, exploring Mars, Venus, and Jupiter, sending space ...

Thanks to Earth’s atmosphere and its protective magnetic field, human beings in developed nations such as the United States are exposed to 0.31 rem (3.1 mSv) of background radiation, with ...

Their life detection experimental findings still reverberate within the scientific community – fueling the on-going discussion on a key question: Is there life on Mars? Fast forward to today ...

The two images released Thursday morning show the six-legged Nova-C lander with Earth in the background ... up ahead of the first crewed missions to Mars. If all goes to plan, Athena should ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk said Saturday its massive Starship rocket would leave for Mars at the end of 2026 ... modified version of Starship as a lunar lander for its Artemis program, which aims ...