Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 ...

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

Japanese lunar company ispace said work on a new engine for its lunar landers is facing delays and that it is keeping open the option of switching engines.

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

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 ...

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.

For a moment, the Soviets even appeared on their way to victory after engineers successfully achieved a soft lunar landing ...

As NASA looks establish a presence on the moon, Blue Origin's Mark 1 lander moves ahead with pre-launch testing.

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

Luna 25’s story is one of ambition thwarted by planetary geopolitics. Yet it fuels ongoing lunar pursuits. The United States finds itself in the middle of a new space race. This time, that race is ...

Private space exploration company Blue Origin said its Blue Moon MK1 lunar lander arrived in Houston for testing. A lunar lander from the private space exploration company Blue Origin is in Houston ...

Artemis III is NASA’s mission intended to return astronauts to the moon. The plan has been to use SpaceX’s still-experimental Starship — the most powerful rocket system ever built — for the last leg ...