Luna 9 had a bouncy touchdown on the lunar surface in 1966, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the Moon.

ISRO has selected MM-4 near the Moon’s South Pole as its spot for Chandrayaan-4’s 2028 landing. This mission will collect Moon soil and rocks and return to Earth with them, helping India study lunar ...

Mengzhou performed as designed during the test, which lifted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on Hainan Island. The ...

Two rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.

NASA has released a spectacular photo of February's full "Snow Moon" rising behind the Artemis 2 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, capturing both the rocket and its destination ahead of its historic ...

NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway will be joined by two international spacefarers on an upcoming mission to the ISS known as Crew-12.

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 ...

China's Yutu-2 rover captured imagery of the lunar surface. See rover tracks and views from the far side of the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by ...

Their findings were presented at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) 2026, where scientists outlined how detailed terrain analysis helped narrow down potential landing zones.

NASA hopes to accelerate the launch of a mission with SpaceX known as Crew 12 after 4 other astronauts on a previous mission ...

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...