Space Pride, in collaboration of Firefly Aerospace, Interstellar Foundation, and Intuitive Machines, has soft-landed queer ...

Space-ng optical navigation software provides terrain relative navigation, hazard detection, and attitude determination from ...

Blue Ghost is only the second private lander to soft-land on the Moon, touching down in the Mare Crisium region, near a volcanic cone known as Mons Latreille. Listen to Story LRO has been surveying ...

What it is: Sunset on the moon, part of the first collection of high-definition imagery of a lunar sunset Where it is: Mons Latreille, a mountain in the moon's Mare Crisium ("Sea of Crises") basin ...

Just over an hour later, it was on the surface in Mare Crisium, a lava plain inside an ancient 345-mile-wide impact crater in the northeast quadrant of the near side of the moon. Blue Ghost became ...

A quarter-million miles away, the sun had already set on Mare Crisium, the lunar lava plain where Blue Ghost had collected scientific observations for two weeks. For the solar-powered spacecraft ...

In its dying moments, the Blue Ghost lunar lander captured the first high-definition images of a sunset on the Moon. The lunar nightfall differs subtly from an Earthly sunset, and the images could ...

After its successful landing on Mare Crisium, Blue Ghost operated 10 NASA payloads for a complete lunar day, which is roughly 14 days on Earth. The findings from this mission is expected to ...

Apollo 11 data reveals moonquakes shake lunar surface more than Earthquakes In July 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first stepped on the moon and planted the U.S. flag ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost lunar lander delivered 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the Mare Crisium basin on the near side of the Moon. Seven of those payloads were managed by the ...

A lunar lander has completed its two-week mission and sent spectacular sunset images as a "final goodbye" back to Earth. The ...