Luna-25, Russia's first moon mission in 47 years, was the vanguard of a planned series of lunar probes. Russia's first moon lander in 47 years has crashed into the lunar surface, the country's ...

Credit: Roscosmos HELSINKI — Russia’s Luna-25 mission ended in failure after crashing into the moon, space agency Roscosmos has announced. A statement posted to the agency’s Telegram social ...

The country’s last lunar lander, Luna 24, landed on the surface of the moon on August 18, 1976. The Luna 25 probe launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia’s Amur Oblast on August 10 ...

Russia's Luna-25 probe crashed Saturday on the moon after a thruster firing went awry, cutting off communications and putting the spacecraft in the wrong orbit, the Russian space agency announced ...

Russia's Luna-25 probe likely left a 33-foot-wide crater on the surface of the moon last month when it lost control and crashed down, NASA said Thursday, revealing images that show the suspected ...

Russia's space agency successfully launched a robotic spacecraft Thursday on a journey to the Moon, the country's first lunar explorer since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 sample return mission in 1976.

MOSCOW, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Russia's first moonshot in nearly half a century has failed after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into the moon. Following are details about the ...

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Russia reignited its moon exploration program today (Aug. 10), sending a lander toward Earth's nearest neighbor. The Luna-25 mission lifted off today at 7:10 p.m. EDT (2310 GMT) atop a Soyuz-2.1b ...

when the U.S. and Soviet Union sent uncrewed spacecraft to orbit and land on the moon. The Soviets scored an early victory in January 1959, when Luna 1, a small Soviet sphere bristling with ...

A new mock-up of the moon's surface has opened near Cologne in Germany. A decade in the making, the LUNA analog facility is jointly built by The European Space Agency (ESA) and the German ...

Following the success of the Sputnik spacecrafts, the Soviets planned a series of spacecrafts to be launched towards the moon. The Luna programme was planned to collect more information about the ...