Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander captured this image of a sunset from the lunar surface. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial ...

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 ...

Before ending its mission on the lunar surface, Blue Ghost watched a beautiful sunset, capturing the glow of the Sun’s light slowly fading over the Moon’s horizon. Firefly Aerospace released ...

In 2024, the China National Space Administration launched a spacecraft that carried a lander to the surface of the far ... Credit: CNSA Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center Lunar soil ...

The solar-powered Blue Ghost went dark on Sunday evening (March 16) after the sun set on its lunar locale, bringing an end to a highly successful two weeks of surface operations on the moon.

HOUSTON – As the sun set on the Blue Ghost Moon lander, bringing a successful 14-day mission to a close, the robot captured a view only seen by a handful of people as particles on the surface of the ...

But from the Moon, the view is different. Earth blocks the Sun, casting a massive shadow across the lunar surface. This is an eclipse seen from another world. The Blue Ghost lander was perfectly ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander finished surface operations on March 16, 2025, wrapping up a smashing success of a mission. Designed, built, and flown by Firefly Aerospace, based near Austin ...

"This marks the first time in history a commercial company was actively operating on the Moon and able to observe a total solar eclipse where the Earth blocks the sun and casts a shadow on the lunar ...

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 ...

The event occurs when the Earth moves between the sun and the moon, blocking sunlight and casting a shadow over the lunar surface. During totality, light refracted through Earth’s atmosphere ...

Earlybirds in the UK could have caught a glimpse of a partial lunar eclipse on Friday morning (March 14). The rare Blood Moon dipped below the horizon at around 6.32 am today, but some lucky ...