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.

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 ...