Firefly Aerospace on Monday announced the conclusion of its Blue Ghost lunar lander mission, declaring it the first “fully successful” commercial operation on the moon.

"It has been an honor to enable science and technology experiments that support future missions to the moon, Mars and beyond.

The spacecraft carried out the longest commercial operation on the moon to date—and also made history during its rare chance to document this celestial event ...

The Blue Ghost lunar lander, operated by Firefly Aerospace from Texas, became the first commercial spacecraft to image an ...

In addition to these payloads, Texas-based Firefly performed some work of its own on the Moon. Blue Ghost captured a total solar eclipse from the Moon on March 14, while Earth simultaneously ...

The images reveal a phenomenon known as "lunar horizon glow," which is believed to be caused by charged lunar dust particles levitating due to solar radiation. This glow was first emerged in theory by ...

the robot captured a view only seen by a handful of people as particles on the surface of the Moon danced in the lingering sunlight. Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured high-definition ...

Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lunar lander made the most of its last few hours of life on the moon. "These are the first high-definition images taken of the sun going down and then going into ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 lunar lander snapped incredible photographs of the March 13–14 total lunar eclipse, as seen from the moon ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost moon lander is seen as bright pixel casting a shadow in the middle of the box in this photo, which was taken by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 2 ...

Separately, Blue Ghost witnessed an eclipse from the lunar surface last week. The event cast Earth’s shadow across the moon, briefly plunging the lander into darkness. However, the robotic ...