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 ...

Though moon missions are fiendishly difficult, and many U.S. and Soviet attempts have failed, Russia had not attempted a moon mission since Luna-24 in 1976, when Communist leader Leonid Brezhnev ...

The Moon has fascinated humanity for centuries, but one question remains elusive: is there water? Despite missions dating back to the 1970s, including the Soviet Luna 24 probe, the answer has been ...

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.

A lander hasn’t successfully reached the surface of the Moon’s cratered Mare Crisium region since the Soviet Luna 24 probe ...

In 1966, the USSR made a successful lunar soft landing. However, since its successful Luna 24 mission in 1976, Russia has made no attempts to return. Meanwhile, the U.S. is now gearing up for the ...

Officials at NASA believe they have found the crash site of the Luna-25 spacecraft ... which it did two days later on Aug. 24. Imagery that NASA released on Thursday appears to show the appearance ...

The Luna 25 mission was named in continuation of the Soviet Union’s missions of the 1970s, which ended with Luna 24 bringing samples of moon rock back to Earth in 1976. The new mission launched ...

China's Chang'e-5, the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, delivered 1.73 kilograms of regolith from the Oceanus Procellarum, a plane named for its vast size.