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 ...

BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) View from the moon: From the moon’s ... in this story came from NASA, Firely Aerospace's X account, FOX Weather, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and previous ...

It's lights out for the first private lunar lander to pull off a fully successful moon mission. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander fell silent over the weekend, wrapping up two weeks of science ...

BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) From the moon’s perspective ... Information in this story came from NASA, Firely Aerospace's X account, FOX Weather, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and ...

Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company that built Blue Ghost, has shared two stunning images from ... in 2009 a Japanese mission called Kaguya witnessed a penumbral lunar eclipse, a type ...

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday ... on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket together with Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost -- which aced its lunar landing on Sunday. Blue Ghost is only the second private ...

Blue Ghost touched down on March 2 and ran all 10 NASA science experiments without issue. It even watched last week's solar eclipse from the moon.

The Blue Ghost spacecraft has landed on the Moon, making history as the first private lander to “successfully” achieve this feat, according to its creator, Firefly Aerospace. The Texas-based ...

Blue Ghost is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost ... China and Japan - had accomplished soft landings on the Moon.

Blue Ghost, however, survived landing and completed “100 percent of its mission objectives,” per Firefly. That makes the mission—which deployed 10 NASA payloads, beamed more than 119 gigabytes of data ...

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its moon lander, following the success of its rocket "rideshare" buddy, a spacecraft from a US firm. ispace's unmanned ...