In the early 1990s, Russian engineers launched a colossal reflective sail meant to bounce sunlight back to Earth and extend daylight into the darkest regions. This is the strange, ambitious story of ...

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 ...

Although the Luna-9 mission was widely celebrated, the precise location of the lander remained uncertain for decades due to ...

For more than six decades, the exact location of the Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft, the first object to land safely on the Moon, has eluded researchers. Now, with the help of artificial intelligence, ...

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

Researchers report the detection of "artificial objects" on the Moon that could help locate a long-lost Soviet spacecraft.

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

Key developments on Feb. 11 * Russian losses in Ukraine 'astonishing,' former MI6 chief says; * Russian strike on Kharkiv Oblast killed 3 toddlers and their father, pregnant mother injured; * Ukraine ...

Jimmy Ba and Tony Wu, co-founders of Elon Musk's xAI have left the company, whittling the startup's original team of 12 ...