The most persistent myth about Apollo is that the United States faked the Moon landing in a studio and somehow fooled the entire planet. The more closely I look at the historical record, the clearer a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 8, 1973, the Soviet Union launched the Luna 21 mission to land a rover on the moon. This was the second time that the ...

In the intense years of the Space Race, the Soviet Union pursued some of the most ambitious rocket programs ever attempted, but two catastrophic explosions would leave lasting scars on its quest for ...

Two research teams have identified possible landing sites for Luna 9, the first human-made object to safely reach the lunar surface. “One of them is wrong,” an expert said. By Becky Ferreira Becky ...

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.