The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen ...

Blue Ghost, a Texas-built lunar lander, sent its final message home from the moon’s surface Sunday before powering down and ...

The Blue Ghost mission to the moon has deployed one its NASA instruments, drilling into the moon's surface to collect ...

A third lander from the Japanese company ispace is still three months from landing. It shared a rocket ride with Blue Ghost from Cape Canaveral on ... private companies operate on a limited budget ...

Blue Ghost, a spacecraft built in Cedar Park, gently landed on the moon at 2:34 a.m. Sunday. “Y’all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon,” the mission’s chief engineer told the control room after ...

Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth ...

After recently landing at the Moon’s Mare Crisium, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander craft was treated to a spectacle that’s rarely observed: a total solar eclipse as seen from ...

The jets pulsed as needed to control velocity and orientation before slowing the craft to just 2.2 ... surface contact sensors on Blue Ghost's shock-absorbing landing legs indicated they were ...