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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers believe they may have found the final resting place of Luna 9, the Soviet spacecraft missing since it landed on the Moon on February 3, 1966. On January 31, 1966, the Soviet Union launched ...

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 ...

Earth’s moon is a cemetery of space probes, hurled there by numerous nations over the last half-century. Whether they landed successfully or crashed in a useless plume of lunar dust, we usually lost ...

After a few crash landings on the Moon, the Soviet Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to make a controlled, rocket-assisted soft landing on the Moon in 1966. Three years before Apollo 11 brought the ...