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 ...

Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called ...

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

Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to ...

The Lip Sync Battle host shared new photos of her children from her youngest to her oldest on Instagram, showing how much they've grown over the years Teigen's daughter, Luna, 9, looked just like her ...

While the findings are promising, they are not yet definitive proof of Luna 9's location.

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.

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 ...

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 ...