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 ...

From a Mars rover selfie to an astronaut's view of the flower moon, these space images will give you a new perspective on our ...

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’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 ...

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.

The Blue Ghost mission was part of a $145 million NASA contract. Unlike the billions that were previously spent by the US to reach the moon in 1969, Firefly CEO Jason Kim touted his company’s ...

Blue Ghost then captured some striking images of the moon shortly after it entered lunar orbit Feb. 13. Last week, Blue Ghost got a look of the moon's far side, ...

The Blue Ghost mission from Firefly Aerospace performed a picture-perfect landing 10 days ago, since when it has been deploying its payloads onto the lunar surface and collecting science data.

Firefly’s 6.6-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) Blue Ghost lunar lander touched down on the moon’s near side around 2:34 a.m. CT (3:34 a.m. ET) Sunday. A parade of lunar landers developed by the ...

Firefly's lunar lander, named Blue Ghost, entered orbit around the moon last week, ending a four-day transit from Earth and starting to gear up for a lunar touchdown. In the lead-up to that ...