"It has been an honor to enable science and technology experiments that support future missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

Meanwhile, a separate lunar lander has already made it to the moon to begin about two weeks of surface operations. That spacecraft, named Blue Ghost, is being operated by Firefly Aerospace ...

With the Blue Ghost lunar mission coming to an end this week, the spacecraft has gifted scientists and the public with an incredible send-off. The moon lander captured the first ever HD imagery of ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander made the most of its last few hours of life on the moon. "These are the first high-definition images taken of the sun going down and then going into ...

Marking the mission’s closure, Firefly shared a message from the Blue Ghost lander, which will now sit silently on the lunar surface for the rest of time. “Goodnight friends,” the message began.

Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost just completed its mission, which lasted a full lunar day — two Earth weeks — on the near side of the moon. The spacecraft, about the size of a small car ...

A quarter-million miles away, the sun had already set on Mare Crisium, the lunar lava plain where Blue Ghost had collected scientific observations for two weeks. For the solar-powered spacecraft ...

Blue Ghost’s endeavors included acquiring the farthest-ever received GPS signal, using a special vacuum to collect and sort lunar dust, and deploying a drill to measure soil temperatures.Firefly ...

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 operate ...

The second photo downloaded from Blue Ghost showcases the totality, which resulted in a glowing band of sunlight over the lunar horizon resembling a diamond ring. Given the positions of Earth ...

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 ...