Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost probe is expected to land no earlier than Sunday, March 2, 2025 in the wee hours before dawn.
The solar-powered probe is a little over 15 feet tall, which according to the company is "roughly the height of a shorter adult giraffe." On board is a drill built by NASA that was expected to drill ...
The total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 will plunge moon missions into darkness. What will happen to the lunar spacecraft?
The Blue Ghost lunar probe from Firefly Aerospace amazes us with spectacular images of the Moon's surface. These snapshots, captured from Mare Crisium, reveal rare and magnificent ...
The same rocket launching the Intuitive Machines lander on its mission is also carrying a spacecraft called Lunar Trailblazer. That dishwasher-sized probe is intended to go into orbit around the moon.
NASA's Lunar Trailblazer probe could be in trouble. Lunar Trailblazer powered up and began transmitting data after launch, but its operators began noticing power issues and subsequently lost ...
Grace isn't the only robot that caught a ride to the lunar surface on Athena. The lander is also carrying a small rover called MAPP (Mobile Autonomous Prospecting Platform), which was built by the ...
While Earthlings were watching the moon turn blood red during Friday morning’s lunar eclipse, a robotic lander on the moon ...
The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...
Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.
NASA’s Surveyor 3 lunar probe managed to capture the first-ever view of a solar eclipse from another celestial body during the April 1967 lunar eclipse. In 2009, Japan's Kaguya spacecraft took ...