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

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

Jeff Bezos' cryptic tortoise post on X sparked a playful jab from rival Elon Musk, who questioned Blue Origin's lunar ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.

The Moon has always been a steady presence in the night sky, but recent observations are forcing scientists and sky-watchers ...

Recent research suggests that Saturn's bright rings and its largest moon, Titan, may have both originated in collisions among its moons. While Cassini's 13-year mission expanded our understanding of ...

Find an unobstructed view of the south-east horizon and the moon will guide you to the brightest star in Scorpius ...

Elon Musk is eyeing up the Moon with a plan straight out of sci-fi - build a lunar factory and then hurl satellites into space using a colossal electromagnetic catapult. The tech billionaire wants to ...

However, researchers may now be closer than ever to finding the Soviet Union’s Luna 9 spacecraft. Using an advanced machine learning program, an international team of scientists believe they have ...

The first manned mission of the Artemis program won’t land on the moon, but it aims to take four astronauts farther from the Earth than anyone has gone before.

Scientists report high-confidence detections of artificial objects on the Moon that may identify the 1966 Soviet Luna 9 ...