As Firefly Aerospace prepared to close out a two-week mission on the moon, its lander had one final gift to beam home: the first high-definition images of a lunar sunset.

The privately-owned lander turned its cameras toward Earth as our planet cast its shadow over the moon. It’s not the first spacecraft to do so.

The Athena lander from Intuitive Machines could not charge its batteries after ending up on its side. It largely failed to ...

In some images from early Friday morning, the moon appears red. The reddish hues appear because some light still reaches the moon when it's fully in Earth's shadow, but those wavelengths are red ...

Earth’s shadow will block most of the light that illuminates the lunar surface, creating what is known as a blood moon. By Katrina Miller March 14: This event has concluded and you can see ...

During a total lunar eclipse, the Earth completely stops sunlight from directly hitting the moon as the sun and the Earth perfectly align with it. Only light that is refracted through Earth's ...

The moon is fully in Earth's shadow. At the same time, a little bit of light from Earth's sunrises and sunsets (on the disk of the planet) falls on the surface of the moon. Because the light waves ...

It's a larger, fully reusable version of the rocket that flew humans to the moon, he added, "and it's just really audacious." Why Starship is critical for building on the moon Though the moon isn ...

It has since been lowering its orbit in preparation for a moon landing and is now all set for the upcoming attempt. "Blue Ghost's third and final lunar orbit maneuver is complete! Early this ...

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The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured a striking up-close view of Earth's cosmic neighbor as it prepares in the days ahead to land on the moon. Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company ...