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

The original high-quality transmission of the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was recorded onto backup magnetic tapes, which were mistakenly wiped by NASA when reusing old tapes due to shortages ...

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, sending the first images from the lunar surface to Earth. The Luna ...

Three developments stand out that will make the return to the moon effort different from the first time we visited Earth’s ...