The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone ...

The Blue Ghost mission to the moon has deployed one its NASA instruments, drilling into the moon's surface to collect ...

American firm Firefly Aerospace, which livestreamed the descent of its Blue Ghost lunar lander, said the craft arrived on the moon's surface at 3:34 a.m. EST. "You all stuck the landing. We're on the ...

Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar lander, sent its final message home from the moon’s surface Sunday before powering down and ...

A third lander from the Japanese company ispace is still three months from landing. It shared a rocket ride with Blue Ghost from Cape Canaveral on ... private companies operate on a limited budget ...

Firefly originally intended to develop a spacecraft based on the design of Israel's Beresheet lander, which was the first ...

Another company’s craft made it to the surface last year but tipped over after landing. The feat marks the end of Blue Ghost’s journey 45-day journey and beginning of its mission to collect ...

The jets pulsed as needed to control velocity and orientation before slowing the craft to just 2.2 ... surface contact sensors on Blue Ghost's shock-absorbing landing legs indicated they were ...

A graphic on Firefly’s live feed showed Blue Ghost’s orientation, altitude and airspeed. Green circles representing the craft’s landing legs turned blue as they touched the surface. “ ...