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 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.

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 ...

A Russian spacecraft has crashed into the moon, spelling the end for the Luna-25 mission. The plan had been for the spacecraft to land on the moon’s surface in the area around the south pole ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The Soviets, however, did enjoy a number of successes before it, including the first spacecraft that successfully orbited our Moon. Following a string of achievements with their Luna missions ...