The mission, in partnership with Nasa, landed at 8.34am UK time on a dark basaltic plain called the Mare Crisium, or the Sea of Crises, near a solitary lunar mountain called Mons Latreille. Cheers ...

Alpha is scheduled to lift off from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday during a 52-minute window that opens at 9:25 a.m. EDT (1325 GMT; 6:25 a.m. local California time). Firefly ...

The experiment is a collaboration between NASA, the Italian Space Agency, and Qascom. Update: Blue Ghost landed on the moon. Firefly's Blue Ghost lander touched down on the lunar surface early ...

15 when a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the 330-pound lander to space. Since then, Blue Ghost — which is named after a species of firefly found in the Southwest — has been sending back ...

Firefly AerospaceTwo moon landings in less than a week have turned the spotlight again on space startups. NASA is leaning on ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost probe is expected to land no earlier than Sunday, March 2, 2025 in the wee hours before dawn. Update for 4:30 am ET: Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander ...

Texas-based space company Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has become the second private spacecraft in history to softly touch down on the Moon's surface. Firefly's car-sized lander touched ...

Acting NASA administrator Janet Petro said at Firefly's landing event that the moon remains part of America's goal to "dominate" space. On Blue Ghost, two onboard instruments will study the lunar ...

Blue Ghost Mission 1 - Shadow on the Moon's Surface Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace’s historic Blue Ghost mission to the moon has officially ended after the lander made its last ...

While last night on Earth we got a lunar eclipse, the Blue Ghost lander on the moon saw the opposite - a solar eclipse.

Ray Allensworth, @Firefly_Space Spacecraft Program Director, explains why it would not have been a practical use of resources to stream live from the spacecraft during Blue Ghost's Moon landing.

On its way to the Moon, the spacecraft sent an image of the Earth from space, and beamed home another image after its touchdown on the lunar surface. Now, Firefly has shared an image of the Sun ri ...