Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander has snapped its first photos of its distant target. On Monday (Jan. 27), Texas-based Firefly released two photos of the moon that Blue Ghost captured ...

Earth won't experience another Blue Moon until 2026. Here we explore this phenomenon in more detail. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...

Firefly's "Blue Moon" and ispace's "Resilience" are the latest in an ongoing push to gain private-sector experience exploring ...

America's next Moon lander, Blue Ghost, is traveling through space after launching from Florida earlier this month and capturing breathtaking views. About a week after launch, the spacecraft looked ...

The moon’s Mare Crisium, thought to have been molded billions of years ago by volcanic activity, is a vast, haunting landscape. It’s only fitting that NASA is sending a Blue Ghost to explore it.

Carrying a suite of NASA-sourced scientific instruments, Blue Ghost will then make a run at the moon. The mission is flying under the U.S. space agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS ...

"Supermoon" is an unofficial term, but it sure sounds cool to say something like "super harvest blood moon." The most common definition of a blue moon is the second moon in a month with two full ...

For a Full Moon to earn the Super Moon tag, it should be within approximately 90 percent of its closest distance to Earth. Blue Moon: A Blue Moon is the second Full Moon in a month that ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. It will take 45 days for Firefly's Blue Ghost on its cruise to the moon. According to Firefly, this will allow for health checks and the ...

SpaceX later confirmed deployment of the two landers, sending them on their way to the moon. The launch is the first mission for the Blue Ghost lander and the second attempt for the Resilience lander.

It took a quarter of a century, but artist Mikael Genberg may finally see his dream realized: a red Swedish house, on the ...

Specialists fear planned commercial flights could compromise lunar heritage, including Neil Armstrong’s bootprints.