Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost commercial lander has gone dark on the moon as planned, but not before sending back ...

Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully successful” commercial operation on the moon.

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

Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface ...

THE LUNAR LANDER WILL BE A RESOURCE TO SEARCH FOR WATER ... INTO SPACE FROM HEROIC STORIES OF THE NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM TO SCANNED ARTWORK AND RECORDS FROM DOZENS OF NONPROFIT GROUPS.

The squat four-legged lander stands 6-foot-6 (2 meters) tall and 11 feet (3.5 meters ... a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA's long-ago Apollo moonwalkers, who ...

The Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit on autopilot, aiming for the slopes of an ancient volcanic dome.

A privately owned lunar ... lander. It still managed to operate briefly, ending America’s moon-landing drought of more than 50 years. Until then, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo ...

The second U.S.-built lunar spacecraft to reach ... whose IM-1 lander, Odysseus, became the first American spacecraft since the Apollo era to land on the moon in February 2024.