The Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost moon lander has begun its work on the moon using its drill, vacuum and electrodes. Blue ...

One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured its first sunrise on the moon, marking the beginning of the lunar day and the start of surface operations in its new home. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Last weekend, ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander successfully landed on the moon on Sunday, March 02, 2025. It will spend 14 days on the moon, using NASA's 10 payloads to learn more about Earth's ...

Private space company Firefly Aerospace says it will equip the Elytra orbital vehicles with the Ocula telescopes to conduct planetary observations.

A robotic lander developed by a Japanese company named ispace plummeted to the Moon's surface Thursday, destroying a small rover and several experiments intended to demonstrate how future missions ...

The failed mission comes two years after the Japanese start-up’s first moonshot ended in a crash landing. A Japanese-made private lunar lander has crashed while attempting to touch down on the moon, ...

Early reports suggest that an issue with the Japanese lander's sensors prevented it from sufficiently slowing down ...

Investigations by the Japanese company ispace identified issues with speed and an altitude sensor that likely doomed the lander ...

Despite back-to-back failures, ispace is planning its third moon landing attempt in 2027 with Nasa’s cooperation.

The incident echoes ispace’s first mission failure in 2023, when a software malfunction led to a crash during the final stage ...

The Tokyo-based company ispace declared the mission a failure several hours after communication was lost with the lander.