Japan's space authorities say that a ship of this country has successfully landed on the surface of the moon, making this country the fifth country to go to the moon after the United States, Russia, China and India.
Russian officials say that the country's space mission to explore the South Pole of the Moon, which was carried out for the first time in almost half a century, has failed and the Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed on the surface of the Moon.
Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed when its Luna-25 space craft spun out of control and crashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit.
As the United States races to put humans back on the moon for the first time in 50 years, a NASA-funded lab in Colorado aims to send robots there to deploy telescopes that will look far into our galaxy, remotely operated by orbiting astronauts.
A blood-red moon dazzled star gazers across much of the world on Friday when the earth's natural satellite moved into the shadow of our planet for the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st Century.