Chinese scientists have discovered a remarkable material in lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e 5 mission. This finding ...

China’s historic farside sample-return mission is providing intriguing insights into why the Moon’s farside is so different ...

China's lunar probe, Chang’e 6, returned to Earth back in June 2024 bringing rock & soil samples from the far side of the moon.

Chang’e-6 samples reveal two types of basalts, refining lunar volcanic timelines and showing young magmatism on the Moon’s ...

The study published on Science, conducted by a team led by Xu Yigang, an academician of the CAS and a researcher at the ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences conducted radioisotope dating on 108 basalt fragments returned by China’s Chang’e-6 from the lunar surface. This analysis has revealed the persistence of ...

China has launched several spacecraft to the moon. In 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft returned moon rocks from the near side, the first since those collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts and ...

China’s Chang’e 8 mission will introduce new technologies and scientific experiments for lunar exploration. According to a post shared on Chinese social media, Wang Qiong, chief designer of ...

China has launched several spacecraft to the moon. In 2020, the Chang’e-5 spacecraft returned moon rocks from the near side, ...

Moon rocks gathered by NASA's Apollo astronauts and Soviet spacecraft in the 1970s were the first to be returned from the near side by the Chang'e-5 mission in 2020. In 2019, the Chang'e-4 ...