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 ...

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.

Mengzhou performed as designed during the test, which lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan Island. The capsule successfully maneuvered itself away from its Long March 10 rocket and ...

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

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.

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

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

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

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 ...

NASA's Lunar Gateway is designed as a staging point for crewed and robotic missions and as a testbed for technologies crucial to landing humans on Mars.

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