China just took another step toward landing astronauts on the moon, acing a key abort test with its Mengzhou crew capsule and ...

These advancements in China’s reusable rocket and lunar exploration programs come as NASA prepares to launch a crew of four ...

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 ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence and NASA images to solve a long-standing space mystery. They may have identified ...

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

More than 50 years after Apollo 17, NASA’s Artemis II will send four astronauts on a 10-day loop around the Moon to test the agency’s deep-space hardware.

NASA’s upcoming Artemis II flight will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, but it will not land on the moon. Here’s why.

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

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

The Chandrayaan-4 mission is India's first lunar sample-return endeavour, set to land at the strategically chosen MM-4 site ...