The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

"The successful SCALPSS operation is a key step in gathering fundamental knowledge about landing and operating on the moon, ...

NASA says it has penciled in Blue Origin's Blue Moon cargo lander to deliver a scientific payload to the moon as early as this summer.

Blue Ghost successfully landed on the moon on Sunday (March 2), touching down in Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") — a large ...

Private lunar lander Blue Ghost’s shadow is seen on the moon’s surface after touching down on the moon with a special ...

A second American company has landed a spacecraft on the moon in an extraordinary feat once solely the realm of government space agencies like NASA. The landing precedes by just four days the ...

Credit: Firefly Aerospace A new commercial lunar lander has made it to the surface of the Moon. Blue Ghost, a lander built and operated by Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, nailed its touchdown ...

The program is aimed to encourage the private sector to launch payloads to the moon before the agency’s planned Artemis mission to the lunar surface later this decade. The Blue Ghost mission was ...

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The landers touched down within days of each other, while a third lunar lander from Japan is working to reach the Moon on a fuel-efficient low-energy trajectory. Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 ...

A private lunar lander carrying a drill, vacuum and other equipment to deliver for NASA touched down on the moon on Sunday, the latest of several companies seeking to kickstart business on Earth's ...

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 ...