Russia's space agency said on Friday that all systems of lunar landing space craft that blasted off Friday were working normally hours after it detached from a booster module. All communications with ...

A small, privately-funded Japanese spacecraft attempted to land on the moon Tuesday, but flight controllers in Tokyo lost contact with the craft during the final minutes of its descent when it ...

TALLINN, Estonia — A rocket carrying a lunar landing craft blasted off Friday on Russia’s first moon mission in nearly 50 years, racing to land on Earth’s satellite ahead of an Indian spacecraft. The ...

MOSCOW, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Russia on Sunday switched on the scientific instruments aboard its lunar lander and scientists began processing its first data as the space craft sped towards the moon in a ...

TOKYO, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Japan on Saturday became the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, but solar power issues threatened to cut short the nation’s mission to prove a "precision" landing ...