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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander launched at 1:11 a.m. Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the SpaceX rocket before separating an hour later.

A SpaceX rocket launched a pair of lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and Ispace’s Hakuto-R — on a journey to our closest celestial neighbor.