Scientists may have narrowed down the landing site of the Soviet Union's Luna 9, which in 1966 became the first spacecraft to ...

Japanese lunar company ispace said work on a new engine for its lunar landers is facing delays and that it is keeping open ...

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

Sixty years after Luna 9’s pioneering journey, researchers believe they may have found the craft’s final resting place.

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 is. But the search is oddly compelling.

The spacecraft made history, returning the first images from the surface of the Moon. But its whereabouts have become a ...

Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 ...

With NASA rushing to land astronauts on the moon as soon as 2027 in a race to beat China, the space agency said it's reopening the competition to find the spacecraft that will return American ...

As the U.S. races China to the Moon, two billionaires are locked in a space race of their own. NASA has offered both Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin a chance to return astronauts to ...

Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism New Shepard flights to focus on competing with SpaceX to be the moon lander for the Artemis III mission.

The effect of lunar regolith on Blue Ghost and its instruments, as well as other data, would be used for future Artemis missions. Credit: Firefly Aerospace Firefly Aerospace has sold data it collected ...