The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.
Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
Unlike Apollo—which used a single spacecraft comprising a mothership and lunar lander—Artemis III will see Orion dock with ...
Firefly's Blue Ghost Mission 1, which lasted about 14 days, or the equivalent of one lunar day, marks the longest commercial ...
Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.
Blue Ghost completed 14 days of surface operations, deploying its various payloads and transmitting more than 119 gigabytes ...
Blue Ghost, a moon lander from Firefly Aerospace, captured the first high-definition photos of the lunar sunset from the moon ...
While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...
Blue Ghost, a private lunar lander from Austin-based Firefly, captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the ...