Astronomy contributor and lunar expert Robert Reeves looks back on a Texas-sized achievement in Moon exploration.

Firefly Aerospace, a private space company, has successfully landed its lunar lander on the surface of the moon, carrying a drill, vacuum, and other experiments ... unlike the Apollo moon landings ...

LISTER, mounted below Blue Ghost’s lower deck, measures the flow of heat from the moon's interior with a sophisticated pneumatic drill, developed by Texas Tech and Honeybee Robotics. The tool, ...

Launched in mid-January from Florida, the lander carried 10 experiments ... the surface. Also on board: a device for eliminating abrasive lunar dust — a scourge for NASA’s long-ago Apollo ...