Russia's first lunar lander mission in 47 years ended in failure when Luna-25 crashed into the moon. Credit: Space.com | ...

Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them ...

However, researchers may now be closer than ever to finding the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 spacecraft. Using an advanced machine learning program, an international team of scientists believe they have ...

Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar ...

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will be joined by two international spacefarers on an upcoming mission to the ...

China just took another step toward landing astronauts on the moon, acing a key abort test with its Mengzhou crew capsule and ...

NASA's Artemis 2 faces new delays, pushing its launch to at least March. Here's why the crewed lunar mission is postponed, ...

A vast underground tunnel known as a lava tube, formed from ancient volcanic activity, was recently discovered lurking ...

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it ...

China’s space program, striving to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030, carried out a test flight of a new reusable booster and crew capsule late Tuesday (US time), and the results were spectacular.

Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

More than 50 years after Apollo 17, NASA’s Artemis II will send four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon to test the agency’s deep-space hardware.