The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft after it landed on the moon, with Earth in the distance. Blue Ghost just completed its mission, which lasted a full lunar day — two Earth weeks — on the near ...

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

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

Longest commercial Moon mission using Firefly’s composites-intensive Blue Ghost lander completes more than 346 hours of ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an eclipse from the moon.

NASA noted that the spacecraft also landed more than 1,300 feet (400 meters) from its intended landing site near the moon's ...

Athena was expected to operate for about 10 days before powering down as lunar night fell over the spacecraft’s landing site at Mons Mouton, a plateau that lies about 100 miles (160 kilometers ...

The researchers found that temperatures at the spacecraft's landing site fluctuated ... were taken during the Apollo 15 and 17 missions in the 1970s, both of which landed near the moon's equator — far ...

That's where NASA is targeting for its first landing by astronauts since the 1960s and 1970s Apollo program, no earlier than 2027. The craters are believed to hold tons of frozen water that could ...

Until last year, the U.S. had not landed on the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972 ... to hop into a permanently shadowed crater near the landing site in search of frozen water. To lower costs even ...

The company completed its first landing on Feb. 22, 2024, when the Odysseus spacecraft touched down, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to reach the lunar surface since Apollo 17 in 1972. Sign up ...

At a post-landing ... 14. Darkness will fall for several hours, with Earth blocking the sun. Firefly Aerospace said that its Blue Ghost lander would observe and record the eclipse from its landing ...