Scientists may have spotted a long-lost Soviet Union Lander, over 60 years after it vanished on the surface of the moon.
Design, fear, and greed. After 25 years of obsessing over Mars, Elon Musk announced that SpaceX has shifted focus from ...
In Musk’s telling, the step beyond data centers orbiting Earth is even larger computers in deep space. And furthermore, Musk ...
Luna 9 had a bouncy touchdown on the lunar surface in 1966, becoming the first spacecraft to land on the Moon.
Space analysts call China’s successful test a ‘significant milestone’ as SpaceX and Blue Origin vie to provide US lunar ...
Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 ...
The Chandrayaan-4 mission is India's first lunar sample-return endeavour, set to land at the strategically chosen MM-4 site ...
Isro recently released a new scientific study based on high-resolution imagery from India’s lunar orbiter that analysed four potential landing sites in the region.
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 rival teams — one using machine learning, the other human eyes — race to find the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.
Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. In 1966, the main spacecraft ejected a 99-kg lander module that used a landing bag to survive impact. The problem is, given the technology ...
China tests crewed spacecraft abort and rocket recovery in major lunar milestone China took a major step forward in its lunar ...