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

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 ...

Nearly six decades after it made history for the first soft landing on a celestial body other than Earth, a tiny Soviet robot ...

For a moment, the Soviets even appeared on their way to victory after engineers successfully achieved a soft lunar landing ...

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.

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The Odysseus lunar lander, nicknamed "Odie" or IM-1, has embarked on a historic journey to the lunar surface - aiming to make the first touchdown of a US-made spacecraft on the ...