Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Technical personnel work at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing on June 2. China's Chang'e-6 touched down on the far ...
India’s Chandrayaan‑4 mission aims to bring Moon soil and rocks back to Earth. The ambitious mission could reveal the Moon’s ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The moon is sometimes called "two-faced" because the surface of its side perpetually facing away from Earth looks so different than its side always facing our planet. And the ...
Chinese researchers have had their first look at rock samples brought back from the far side of the Moon by its Chang’e-6 mission. The mission was China’s second excursion to the Moon’s far side, ...
After sitting untouched in storage for nearly 50 years, lunar samples collected during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions will be studied for the first time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine ...
When the crew of Apollo 17 left the lunar surface and returned to Earth in December 1972, they brought with them samples of a particularly interesting area of the Moon. Those samples were deliberately ...
China achieved a historic feat by bringing back the first-ever sample from the lunar far side in June. Its moon lander, Chang'e 6, used a robotic scoop and drill to collect approximately 5 pounds (2 ...