Earlier in the 1960s, the two superpowers had launched space probes to the moon's surface (the first one to achieve a successful landing was the Soviet Union's Luna 9 in 1966) – but human feet ...

Japan has joined an elite club by landing on the moon. Here’s what others are doing ... previously occupied by only the United States, the Soviet Union, India and China. Here’s a look at ...

Japan’s space agency released on Jan. 25 the first photo of its lunar probe making a successful moon landing ... on the moon after the former Soviet Union, the United States, China and India.

NASA is gearing up to fly more science to the surface of the Moon with its next commercial mission on a Firefly Aerospace lunar lander.