The shadow of the Blue Ghost spacecraft after it landed on the moon, with Earth in the distance. Blue Ghost just completed its mission, which lasted a full lunar day — two Earth weeks — on the near ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander has been orbiting the moon since mid-February and now is in the final stages of its journey to the Mare Crisium, a large basin on near-side of the moon.

Two space missions reached their conclusion: one with a splashdown, the other with a quiet lunar death. And thrilling new ...