The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic lava on the Moon. Blue Ghost pulled off a precision landing, touching down ...

Blue Ghost aced its touchdown try early this morning (March 2), becoming just the second private spacecraft ever to soft-land on the moon. The lander hauled 10 science experiments to the lunar surface ...

A Texan company has achieved the second commercial landing on the moon - and the first that didn't topple over on touchdown. The success comes amid a flurry of private and state lunar exploration.

A week on, and a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Virginia has just released first-of-its-kind footage of a lunar ...

With Blue Ghost, Firefly Aerospace became the first commercial company to complete a fully successful moon landing. “We might be the first, but we're not going to be the last,” Firefly CEO ...

CEDAR PARK — Blue Ghost, a lunar lander 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,” Will Coogan, the lander’s ...

The four-legged Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads as it touched down near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a ...

But when the spacecraft touched down, the webcast showed only three of the vehicle’s four landing legs confirmed contact. Firefly’s Ray Allensworth, the program director for Blue Ghost ...

Update: March 2, 11:07 a.m. ET: Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander performed a successful landing on the Moon earlier today. Original article follows: A private lunar lander is gearing up for its date ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured a striking up-close view of Earth's cosmic neighbor as it prepares in the days ahead to land on the moon. Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company ...

Firefly Aerospace's "Blue Ghost" lander dropped out of lunar orbit and swooped to a rocket-powered touchdown early Sunday, pulling off the first fully successful moon landing by a commercially ...