The Luna-25 lander, which Russia had hoped would land at the south pole of the moon as early as Monday (Aug. 21), crashed into ... was still part of the Soviet Union. That probe landed in the ...

It was Russia's first moon mission since the Soviet Union's Luna-24 returned with samples from ... landing on the south pole of the moon on Aug. 21, according to Russian space officials.

The Soviet Union was a pioneer in exploring the Solar System. The Luna 9 lunar lander achieved ... burn to drop out of lunar orbit on August 21 and target a landing near Boguslavsky crater on ...

Similar samples have already been analyzed at the moon’s equatorial region during NASA's Apollo missions and the Soviet Union's Luna missions in the 1970s. In less than a year since India's ...