Chinese scientists looking at the Moon samples brought back by the Chang'e-6 mission find evidence of micron-sized hematite ...

Lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission contain the first clear physical evidence of hematite and maghemite ...

The Chang'e 6 robotic mission — the world's first attempt to obtain samples from the moon's far side — was launched in May ...

China's Tianwen 2 captured imagery of the Earth and moon when it was 367,000 mi. (590,000 km) away. Credit: Space.com | ...

WENCHANG, China, Nov 24 (Reuters) - China hailed as a success its pre-dawn launch on Tuesday of a robotic spacecraft to bring back rocks from the moon in the first bid by any country to retrieve lunar ...

NASA said that the mission is expected to launch in April 2026, however Duffy’s comments have suggested that it could happen sooner. He has also highlighted the geopolitical dimension and U.S. rivalry ...

Humans last walked on the moon during NASA's Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. This moment is often regarded as the pinnacle of the U.S. space program. Back then, the Apollo–Soviet space race was a ...

As SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the South Texas sky this week, a crowd of employees outside mission control began to chant, “U-S-A, U-S-A!” It was the second successful test flight after a ...

The idea of beating China back to the moon runs into the fact that the U.S. already did that, on July 20, 1969 during the mission of Apollo 11. On the other hand, that was then, more than 50 years ago ...