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

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — After launching from Florida's space coast and cruising toward the moon for the last five months, the Japanese company ispace is preparing to touch down its lunar lander on ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The Japanese company ispace announced that it believes its HAKUTO-R Mission 2 lunar lander has been lost while attempting to land on the moon on Thursday afternoon. This is the ...

Sixty years after Luna 9 touched down on the Moon, the first humanmade object to soft-land there is still missing in plain sight. Soviet reports, including coordinates printed in Pravda, fixed the ...

China and the US are racing to land astronauts on the moon’s surface for the first time since Nasa’s last Apollo mission in 1972. China is aiming to land its first astronauts on the moon by 2030, ...

Scientists report high-confidence detections of artificial objects on the Moon that may identify the 1966 Soviet Luna 9 ...

Researchers report the detection of "artificial objects" on the Moon that could help locate a long-lost Soviet spacecraft.

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

Although the mission was widely celebrated, the precise location of the lander remained uncertain for decades due to limited tracking accuracy and the difficulty of identifying small spacecraft ...

Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

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

ELON Musk has long set his sights on building a colony on Mars where humans can live. But the billionaire space mogul is changing his rocket gears to focus on another, closer destination. The ...