Built near the Amundsen–Scott Station, IceCube was completed in 2010 and tracks ghost-like particles called neutrinos. These particles originate from solar reactions, black holes, and even ...

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics ...

Blue Ghost is only the second private lander to soft-land on the Moon, touching down in the Mare Crisium region, near a volcanic cone known as Mons Latreille. Listen to Story LRO has been surveying ...

The spacecraft shared the breathtaking view of the lunar horizon glow. Blue Ghost transmitted more than 119 GB of data back to Earth, including 51 GB of science and technology data, significantly ...

NASA paid Firefly $101.5 million to carry 10 science and technology payloads to the lunar surface. Blue Ghost landed at lunar sunrise so that the solar-powered spacecraft could operate for the ...

The second landed but fell over. But this month, a robotic lander named Blue Ghost, built by Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, succeeded from start to finish. On March 16, the mood at ...

Firefly’s "Blue Ghost" landed on the moon on March 2, the first private spacecraft to touch down upright and perform its entire mission. It kept taking pictures and collecting science data five hours ...