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

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

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 ...

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

After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the ...

Once a suitable landing spot is identified, Blue Ghost will use its engines to ... Intuitive Machine’s Athena is the third lunar-bound craft. It launched on February 26 alongside NASA ...

KIN BLUE BEACH, Okinawa — An hourlong amphibious ... followed by a Japanese air-cushioned landing craft in the third wave. Two Marine AH-1Z Viper helicopters circled overhead, providing ...

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 LUNAR lander has touched down on the surface of the moon in the first "fully successful" landing by a private space craft. Firefly's "Blue Ghost" has touched down on the slopes of an ancient ...

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 ...