As eyes turn to Firefly Aerospace's mission control for the company's first attempt at landing on the moon, some watching may notice small models of the Blue Ghost lander sitting among the consoles.

The lander, called Athena, is a Nova-C class lunar lander and carries a drill and mass spectrometer capable of boring into the moon's soil to search for highly valued water ice. Such ice holds ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would ...

A dramatic photograph from Intuitive Machines' Athena moon lander shows it touched down Thursday in a crater near the lunar south pole and tipped over on its side. Given a low sun angle and the ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully touched down on the surface of the moon early Sunday morning, kicking off a two-week research mission and marking the latest lunar landing by a private U ...