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 ...

The Soviets scored an early victory in January 1959, when Luna 1, a small Soviet sphere bristling with ... nine missions and 24 astronauts had orbited or landed on the moon. Perhaps the most ...

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 ...

After a series of setbacks that included a mysterious outbreak of avian flu and the forced culling of 200 000 test fowl last year, the revamped Soviet broiler is finally ready for market trials, ...

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

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 ...

So, what is important? Which sites do you focus on? "We might have chosen the site of the Soviet Luna 2 probe because that was the first human artefact to land on the Moon. Instead, we picked ...

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 ...