As the silence from India’s moon lander and rover continues, optimism wanes among scientists who have been unable to re-establish communication since the spacecraft went into hibernation mode to endure the freezing lunar night. India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission celebrated a major achievement when
Russia’s Lunar lander failed on approach and crashed into the surface of the moon on Sunday, marking an end to Russia’s first lunar mission in 47 years. Russia’s spaceflight group, Roskosmos, announced the failure in a statement, saying the craft ran into