The latest private lunar lander is a little closer to its destination. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost fired its engines early ...

The lander, Blue Ghost, fired its engines for four minutes Thursday to propel the spacecraft into lunar orbit ahead of a ...

The close encounter was "a historic first of its type for a Japanese private, commercial lunar lander," according to ispace.

Blue Ghost will spend the next 16 days in lunar orbit, if all goes to plan. It will conduct additional engine burns to circularize its path around Earth's nearest neighbor, then attempt a landing in ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander has made it to the moon. Blue Ghost fired its engines for four minutes and 15 seconds on Thursday (Feb. 13), injecting itself into an elliptical lunar orbit ...

While in lunar orbit, Firefly’s Blue Ghost lander captured an image of the Moon’s south pole on the far left. Firefly Aerospace The hits from Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost mission to the ...

But the mission will also bring something that’s never been installed on the moon or anywhere else in space before—a fully ...

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

Along with Blue Ghost, NASA launched the Tenacious lunar rover from Japanese company ispace. It's one of the smallest ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander caught haunting images of Earth while preparing to make its way towards lunar orbit. Blue Ghost launched on the "Ghost Riders in the Sky" mission on Jan ...

The ship will spend a total of four days in transit, and after reaching the Moon it will park itself in orbit around the satellite for no less than 16 days. Only after these are up will the lander ...