After the spectacular success of the first-ever “Marscopter,” mission planners have soaring ambitions for follow-up flying ...

China's Chang'e 6 has entered orbit around the moon ahead of its upcoming landing attempt on the lunar far side where it will ...

China’s latest mission is carrying a secret rover to the far side of the Moon, as per reports. On May 3, China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft embarked on the lunar journey, riding atop a Long March 5 rocket ...

China’s Chang’e-6 is carrying a surprise rover to the moon China’s Chang’e-6 spacecraft appears to carry a previously ...

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This data will be foundational to China’s efforts in selecting a site for their International ... the far side of the Moon by early June. By 2026, it will be joined by the Chang’e-7 mission, ...

NASA originally awarded Boeing the contract to fly astronauts in 2014, alongside SpaceX. Boeing received $4.8 billion for ...

The first-of-its-kind mission aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon and is the latest step in a rapidly ...

The mission is called Chang’e-6, named after the Chinese moon goddess and pronounced “chong-uh.” It lifted off on time at 5:27 p.m. local time under gloomy skies from the Wenchang space site on Hainan ...

China has launched the Chang’e-6 rover to the Moon.

Chang'e 5's success made China just the third nation to ace a lunar sample-return mission, after the Soviet Union and the United States. The vast majority of moon material brought to Earth was done so ...