The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost lander on the moon was captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: Space.com | ...

One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.

The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost moon lander has begun its work on the moon using its drill, vacuum and electrodes. Blue ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully landed on the moon on Sunday, March 02, 2025. It will spend 14 days on the moon, using NASA's 10 payloads to learn more about Earth's ...

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

Private space company Firefly Aerospace says it will equip the Elytra orbital vehicles with the Ocula telescopes to conduct planetary observations.

The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing. A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, ...

Aside from Texas-based Firefly, only five countries have pulled off a successful lunar landing: the Soviet Union, the U.S., China, India and Japan. And only the U.S. has put astronauts on the moon, ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully executed NASA-backed Commercial Lunar Payload Services, studying the moon's electric and magnetic fields.

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.

The incident echoes ispace’s first mission failure in 2023, when a software malfunction led to a crash during the final stage ...