The dazzling appearance has earned this cosmic structure the nickname "Firefly Sparkle Galaxy." Using computer modeling, researchers "weighed" the galaxy, showing that it has a mass similar to ...

This artist concept depicts a reconstruction of what the Firefly Sparkle galaxy looked like about 600 million years after the big bang if it wasn’t stretched and distorted by a natural effect known as ...

Private spacecraft lands on the moon Unlike Nasa’s Apollo moon landings, which had billions of dollars of funding behind them, private companies operate on a limited budget, Firefly chief Jason ...

An uncrewed spacecraft developed in the United States has successfully soft-landed on the moon, making Texas-based Firefly Aerospace only the second private-sector company ever to complete such a ...

Goodbye, Earth. Firefly’s lunar lander captured views of its home planet in the rearview mirror as it headed toward an orbit around the Moon, aiming for a touchdown on its dusty surface in about ...

On Sunday (2 March) Blue Ghost, Firefly Aerospace’s lunar lander touched down on the moon’s surface, near a volcanic feature called Mons Latreille, having travelled more than 2.8m miles in 45 ...