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

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 ...

As it headed to the lunar surface, laser instruments that measured the lander’s altitude were providing ... the second person to step on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission after Neil ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science experiments for NASA.

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

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 ...

“It’s a successful design ... sun’s light. The lander is also expected to capture a phenomenon during the lunar sunset on March 16, that was first sketched by Apollo 17 astronaut Gene ...

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 ...

(AP) — It’s lights out for the first private lunar lander ... Its first lander put the U.S. back on the moon last year for the first time since the Apollo era after a less-than-perfect landing ...