There's a lot less sky and a lot more moon in view for Firefly Aerospace's "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission.

A private spacecraft carrying NASA instruments to the surface of the moon in preparation for astronauts to return in the years ahead has reached lunar orbit about a month into its spaceflight.

"Goodbye Earth, hello moon," Firefly said in an update on its mission blog the day before it planned to leave Earth behind and enter the lunar orbit. As of Monday, the Blue Ghost spacecraft had ...

A total lunar eclipse - the first to grace our skies since 2022 - will happen in March, and it will bring us a Blood Moon that will appear tinted a reddish-orange to our eyes. The total lunar ...

Arrived: The private Blue Ghost landing vehicle from ... The Firefly mission Ghost Riders in the Sky is part of the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program of the US space agency NASA ...

Stargazers in the UK will be treated to two spectacular lunar eclipses this year - with ... to think of the Moon as being a big object in the sky, it's actually rather small and you can prove ...

Today, Feb. 13, 2025, the moon is 15 days old and is in the Full Moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 99% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky. Some nights when we ...

Blue Ghost captured a bright image of the Moon’s South Pole on the far left through its cameras on the top deck, as it travels to the Moon as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected ... and some of what you can see in the sky each week. Here’s the complete list ...

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