casting a shadow across the lunar surface. Lunar eclipses can only take place during a full moon and are a popular event for skywatchers around the world, as they can be enjoyed without any ...

New shielding technology from NASA that protects against damaging lunar dust just passed a trial run on the moon's surface, marking an important milestone in the agency's lunar aspirations.

TL;DR: Blue Ghost successfully landed on the Moon on March 2. A new video shows it causing sparks on the lunar surface, highlighting its activity and impact. While the surface of the Moon is a ...

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 ...

The LuGRE payload on Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost set three main records that day in March: transmitting trackable signals from 205,674 miles, then doing the same from Lunar Orbit (243,000 miles), ...

Though the Earth blocks any direct sunlight from reaching the moon during a total solar eclipse, the sun still casts the Earth's shadow on the lunar surface. Because the sunlight is blocked ...

After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from the surface ...

With a successful landing, Blue Ghost delivered 10 NASA science instruments to the lunar surface March 2 in an area known as Mare Crisium. The mission is part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload ...

Just hours after touching down on the surface of the moon on March 2nd aboard Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost 1 lander, the Southwest Research Institute-led Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder (LMS ...

Lunar regolith isn't just abundant—it's also clingy. Its electrostatic properties mean it sticks to anything it touches, and its abrasiveness means each tiny grain can scratch the surface of ...

A lunar lander has completed its two-week mission and sent spectacular sunset images as a "final goodbye" back to Earth. The ...

The goal is to drill into the lunar surface within the Mare Crisium, a massive basin in the northeastern part of the Moon's near side, in hopes of better understanding the geology of the Earth's ...