China just took another step toward landing astronauts on the moon, acing a key abort test with its Mengzhou crew capsule and ...

A U.S. commercial spacecraft has successfully landed on the Moon, confirming a major advance in the partnership between NASA and the private space sector. The achievement marks a new phase in lunar ...

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 ...

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

More than 50 years after Apollo 17, NASA’s Artemis II will send four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon to test the agency’s deep-space hardware.

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

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

Senator with 54 days in space experience laughs off rapper's lunar landing doubts, references Soviet Union's historic ...

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