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

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

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 is. But the search is oddly compelling.

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 ...