The lander became the first spacecraft to send back pictures of the Moon, three years before Apollo 11. The post Scientists ...

Data from a NASA lunar orbiter has helped researchers deduce two potential locations for a defunct Soviet spacecraft called Luna 9 ...

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

Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it ...

For a moment, the Soviets even appeared on their way to victory after engineers successfully achieved a soft lunar landing ...

In September 1968, Western intelligence intercepted Soviet transmissions that sounded like cosmonauts landing on the Moon, and for a moment, NASA feared the worst. What they were really hearing was a ...

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

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

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 is. But the search is oddly compelling.

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

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.