Using an advanced machine-learning algorithm, researchers in the UK and Japan have identified several promising candidate locations for the long-lost landing site of the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft.

The Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft touched down in 1966 and transmitted photographs from another world. A historic moment when ...

NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with China's closed program.

Sounding off: NASA is getting ready to send four astronauts around the moon in a capsule whose main safety system has already behaved in an unexpected way. The Orion spacecraft's Avcoat heat shield, ...

As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

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

Although the Luna-9 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 ...

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

The next series of launch opportunities for the Artemis II mission begin March 3. If the mission doesn’t lift off in March, NASA will need to roll the rocket back to the Vehicle Assembly Building to ...