Mare Crisium, or the 'Sea of Crises', can be spotted on the night of May 30 as an oval-shaped dark patch on the moon's ...

Despite missions dating back to the 1970s, including the Soviet Luna 24 probe, the answer has been frustratingly complex. Modern sensors hint at frozen deposits, but confirming and collecting them ...

The infrastructure of humanity's journey into space may only be decades old, but some of it has already been lost. Now, ...

A tiny glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering scientists a glimpse into the moon's hidden depths and providing insight into the violent forces that helped shape the ...

It is the first lunar material to reach Earth since the Soviet Luna 24 mission in 1976. “This is more precious than gold dust,” said Prof Anand, who is the only UK scientist granted access to ...

After analysing the rock in visible and near-infrared light, they found its composition closely resembled moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions and the Soviet Luna 24 mission.

This mission marked the first retrieval of lunar samples since the Soviet Union’s Luna 24 mission in 1976. At the Open University, strong safeguards are in place to prevent sample contamination.

China celebrates April 24 as its Space Day every year in honor of the first ... In return, Russia gave China a reciprocal amount from the 1970 Soviet Luna 16 mission during President Xi Jinping's ...

Kharkiv - Masked men smashed communist-era monuments in Ukraine's second city overnight Friday after the country's pro-Western parliament voted to purge the nation of Soviet symbols and its head of ...

New York - Like the sailors aboard the Kursk, the Russian submarine disabled at the bottom of the Barents Sea, Chayim Sheynin knows what it is like to be trapped under water in a Soviet submarine. As ...

a wayward Soviet spacecraft called Kosmos-482 returned to Earth, entering the planet’s atmosphere at 9:24 a.m. Moscow time on Saturday, according to Roscosmos, the state corporation that runs ...