The company, based in Cedar Park, Texas, not only planned to take photos of the phenomenon, but to potentially operate a suit of NASA scientific instruments to measure changes in the lunar environment ...

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

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 squat four-legged lander stands 6 feet, 6 inches (2 meters) tall and 11 feet (3.5 meters ... Also on board is a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo ...

The total lunar eclipse ... powered lander to rely on its batteries for power rather than its solar panels. The company, based in Cedar Park, Texas, not only planned to take photos of the ...

Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface ...

The lander operated five hours into the lunar night as planned before it died Sunday evening. Photos of the lunar sunset and ...