Luna-25

New Delhi: Space agencies around the world are in a hurry to reach the moon’s South Pole. Russia's Luna-25 failed to achieve it as the spacecraft crashed during landing on Sunday. ISRO’s Chandrayaan-3 will attempt to land on the moon’s…

Russia's lunar exploration suffered a setback as the Luna-25 spacecraft, the nation's first lunar lander in half a century, crashed onto the moon. The space agency, Roskosmos, confirmed the mishap, attributing it to the craft entering an…

India's Chandrayaan-3, launched on July 14, is set for a lunar landing attempt on August 23. Meanwhile, Russia's Luna-25, its first moon-landing rocket in 47 years, is expected to land on August 21, two days before Chandrayaan, even though…

Russia launched its first probe to the Moon since 1956 on Friday. The rocket with the Luna-25 probe lifted off at 02:10 am Moscow time (2310 GMT Thursday) from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. The spacecraft will reach lunar orbit in five…