Its primary objective following the March 2 touchdown inside Mare Crisium crater was to deliver 10 NASA instruments designed to gather lunar subsurface data. But the eastern edge of the moon’s near ...

Blue Ghost, the "little lander" from Firefly Aerospace that's headed to the moon, has captured the littlest lunar eclipse ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A private lunar lander has captured the first high-definition sunset pictures from the moon.

The historic mission of Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander is over. The solar-powered Blue Ghost went dark on Sunday evening (March 16) after the sun set on its lunar locale, bringing an ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition images of the lunar sunset March 16, as lunar night would bring the robotic mission to an end. However, the lander continued to ...

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 ...

Blue Ghost landed at lunar sunrise so that the solar-powered ... The sensors landed about 60 feet away, and, connected by cables to the lander, measured voltages — essentially a supersized ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of ... the sun had already set on Mare Crisium, the lunar lava plain where Blue Ghost had collected scientific observations for ...

On Sunday, Firefly Aerospace became the first private entity to achieve complete success with its Blue Ghost lunar lander, on the northeastern edge of the near side of the moon. A vacuum already ...

Separately, Blue Ghost witnessed an eclipse from the lunar surface last week. The event cast Earth’s shadow across the moon, briefly plunging the lander into darkness. However, the robotic ...

The final act of the Blue Ghost lander's busy two weeks on the moon was to send back sunset shots featuring Earth and Venus.