In the early hours of March 2, Blue Ghost fired its engine to drop it out of orbit, falling toward the moon. Just over an hour later, it was on the surface in Mare Crisium, a lava plain inside an ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander photographed the Earth as it passed in front of the Sun on March 14. By Andrew Paul Published Mar 14, 2025 3:09 PM EDT Get the Popular Science daily ...

When the Blue Ghost lander reached the lunar surface on March 2, Firefly Aerospace become the first commercial company to fully succeed in a soft moon landing at the first attempt.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully made a soft touchdown near an ancient volcanic feature on the moon’s near side early Sunday morning.

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from Earth’s orbit as well as a video of Earth eclipsing the sun. See the dazzling views here.

Blue Ghost aims to be the second, and several others are on its heels. For example, Intuitive Machines' Athena lander ...

Lily Allen apologized for "being mean" to Katy Perry over what she called the singer's "out-of-touch" Blue Origin space flight on April 14.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander lowered its orbit around the moon Tuesday (Feb. 18), sending back gorgeous footage from just over the lunar surface. Skip to main content.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captures image of Earth reflecting off the solar panel with the Moon on the horizon above Earth. Firefly’s X-band antenna and NASA’s LEXI payload are also shown ...

On March 2, Blue Ghost made its landing at the moon's Mare Crisium within its 100-meter target, where it will begin surface operations over 14 days including subsurface drilling, X-ray imaging and ...

Firefly's lunar lander, Blue Ghost, could become the second American craft to land on the moon in five decades following Intuitive Marchines' NASA-backed mission in 2024. Eric Lagatta.