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.

Moon landings were once exclusive to government agencies, but Firefly Aerospace is now the second company to do it.

The mission, aptly named “Ghost Riders in the Sky,” touched down in Mare Crisium, a large impact site filled with basaltic ...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander captured a poignant view of a lunar sunrise in a lens-flare-filled image snapped from its new home on the moon.

And then it stuck the landing, settling into the gray dirt as planned at 3:34 a.m ... "We've got some moon dust on our boots!" The first-ever private moon landing occurred just over a year ...

Also on board: a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for ... to stun once in orbit around the moon, with detailed shots of the moon’s gray pockmarked surface.