We're collecting photos now and downlinking those, and we're going to get a picture from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter camera from above, from orbit, and we'll confirm that over the coming days ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has already made history by tracking GNSS signals in lunar orbit — a first for a U.S. commercial lander. GNSS are navigation systems that provide geolocation ...

Blue Ghost then captured some striking images of the moon shortly after it entered lunar orbit Feb. 13. Last week, Blue Ghost got a look of the moon's far side, an area not visible to Earth ...

"Athena continues to be in excellent health and is expected to send lunar orbit selfies over the next two days before a landing attempt on March 6." ...

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 ...

However, the moon's orbit is tilted by about 5 degrees, so it usually misses the sun from our perspective. Only when it aligns perfectly do we witness a solar eclipse. How can that happen when the ...

Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket-powered touchdown early Sunday, pulling off the first fully successful moon landing by a commercially ...

Sunday’s touchdown was a success. The company’s newest Athena lander dropped out of lunar orbit as planned. The hourlong descent appeared to go well until the final approach when the laser ...

That record continued to rise during Blue Ghost’s journey over the ensuing days, peaking at 243,000 miles from Earth after reaching lunar orbit on February 20. NASA currently tracks spacecraft ...

The Athena lander fired its engines for eight minutes and 12 seconds on Monday (March 3), slowing the spacecraft down and entering lunar orbit. Athena is now all set to make a landing attempt ...