The Chang’e-6 mission aims to land in the Moon’s oldest and largest crater, collect rocks, and bring them back to Earth.

Meteors will be streaking across the sky as Earth passes through dusty debris in space left by Halley's Comet in the annual ...

Chinese spacecraft begins 53-day journey to collect soil and rocks and bring them back to Earth for study It will also ...

As China launches its Chang’e-6 mission to the far side of the moon, US officials have expressed alarm at the pace of its ...

While Chang’e-6 aims to retrieve rocks from the Moon’s far side ... payloads carried by the Chang’e-6 include a French radon gas detector, a Swedish ion analyser, an Italian laser corner ...

To achieve the ultimate goal of pulling metals from space rocks, TransAstra, Karman+, and AstroForge have received a combined ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he ...

The mission plan is for the Chang’e-6’s lander to gather moon dust and rocks after touching down in the sprawling, roughly 2,500-kilometer diameter South Pole-Aitken basin, a crater formed ...

When the Chang’e-4 mission landed in the Von Karman crater on January 3, 2019, China became the first and only country to land on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away ...

In the young solar system, the four gas giant planets —Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — were nestled closer together. Over time, gravitational interactions with planetesimals beyond ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, May 10, 2024, the moon is 2 days old and is in the waxing crescent phase of its lunar cycle. It is 6% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in ...