Russia’s space leadership has set a striking new benchmark for the next phase of lunar exploration, declaring that it wants a ...

A Russian mission to the moon ended in failure as the spacecraft crash-landed on the lunar surface, the nation’s space agency announced Sunday. The Luna-25 craft was attempting to make mankind’s first ...

This handout photograph taken and released by Russian Space Agency Roscosmos on July 13, 2023, shows the Luna-25 rover installed by technicians at the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia. automation MOSCOW ...

Russia is no longer content with short lunar flybys or one-off landers. Its space agency now wants to anchor a permanent ...

Luna 25’s story is one of ambition thwarted by planetary geopolitics. Yet it fuels ongoing lunar pursuits. The United States finds itself in the middle of a new space race. This time, that race is ...

Could the moon landing have been an international program? Roger D. Launius President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita Khrushchev during their meeting in Vienna, Austria. National Archives and ...

Russia's reactivation of lunar exploration via its robotic Luna 25 lander has slipped to 2023. The postponement was announced to Russia's TASS news agency by Yuri Borisov, the head of Russia's space ...