Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, ...

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

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

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.

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.

Honeybee Robotics' Lunar PlanetVac instrument shown at the end of Blue Ghost’s surface access arm. Firefly Aerospace Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander has been parked on the Moon for a little over a ...

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 ...

The event marks the first time a commercial company has been able to actively operate on the moon and observe a total solar eclipse.

Blue Origin was created by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2000 and is headquartered in Kent, Wash. For years, Bezos has voiced a strong interest in lunar exploration. “It’s time to go back to ...

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 ...

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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 ...