Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private mission and delivering 10 NASA instruments to the Moon. The mission ...
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 ...
Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
The most recent eruption episode of Hawaii's most active volcano has ended after sending fountains of lava hundreds of feet ...
Mount Etna put on a show, with new strombolian bursts lighting up the Southeast Crater, Italy’s National Institute of ...
As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the first high-definition images of a lunar sunset.
While making the deliveries, the Blue Ghost lander experienced one lunar day. During the course of that day, it captured ...
The event marks the first time a commercial company has been able to actively operate on the moon and observe a total solar eclipse.
More than 50 years after Apollo 8’s legendary Earthrise photo, a new image from the Moon’s surface delivers a hauntingly ...
Just hours after touching down on the surface of the Moon on March 2 aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lander, the ...
Blue Ghost is in the midst of spending an entire lunar day on the surface of the Moon, or the equivalent of 14 days on Earth.