After achieving a touchdown in early March within the moon's Mare Crisium impact basin, Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander became an on-duty robotic scientist. Kicking up dust and rocks, the ...

Another experiment, Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder, flung four sensors, each a little smaller than a soup can, in directions at 90-degree angles to one another (like north, south, east and west on ...

The lander also looked back at Earth with something called the Lunar Environment heliospheric X-ray Imager (LEXI), in a bid to study the interaction of solar wind and the Earth's magnetic field.

Blue Ghost, a NASA-funded lunar lander built and operated by the private U.S. company Firefly Aerospace, has successfully touched down on the moon. After 45 days in space—and a pulse-pounding ...

GO LISTER! This @NASA payload, developed by @TexasTech and @HB_Robotics, began drilling into the surface shortly after landing to determine the heat flow from the interior of the Moon. Get the ...

The lander will study heat flow from the Moon’s interior, helping scientists understand its thermal evolution. It will analyse plume-surface interactions to improve landing techniques by examining how ...

Despite the tumble, Intuitive Machines' lander put the U.S. back on the moon for the first time since NASA astronauts closed out the Apollo program in 1972.