Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefly's Blue Ghost lunar lander captures a photo of its shadow on the moon with the volcanic feature Mons Latreille visible (top ...

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 ...

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.

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

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

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(CNN) — Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company that conducted a pristine moon landing with its Blue Ghost spacecraft earlier this month, is declaring the historic mission over after achieving “100 ...