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 ...

The privately-owned Blue Ghost moon lander, built by Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace, has captured rare views of a lunar eclipse from the moon’s surface. The lander, which touched down ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander descended from lunar orbit on autopilot, aiming for the slopes of an ancient volcanic dome in an impact basin on the moon’s northeastern edge of the near ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, which has been on the moon since the spacecraft’s successful touchdown on March 2, captured images of the sun, Earth and moon lined up at around 4:30 a.m. ET ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander captured a bright image of the Moon’s South Pole through the cameras on its top deck while it traveled to the Moon as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar ...

The second landed but fell over. But this month, a robotic lander named Blue Ghost, built by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, succeeded from start to finish. On March 16, the mood at ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully touched down on the surface of the moon early Sunday morning, kicking off a two-week research mission and marking the latest lunar landing by a private U ...

Credit: NASA/Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander just etched its name ... to collect and store samples of moon dirt and rock. The Firefly probe hit all its marks on ...