Chinese researchers analyzed the first-ever soil samples returned from the far side of the moon, but further samples will be ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, Chinese scientists reported Wednesday. But they cautioned more samples ...

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the daytime.

“Water abundance is crucial for understanding the origin and subsequent evolution process of the moon,” says Sen Hu, an astrophysicist with the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese ...

But China has gone further since the Chang'e 5 mission. In 2024 its Chang'e 6 launch brought back the first samples from the far side of the Moon. It's a deeply mysterious place that might have ...

In June last year, the Chang’e 6 mission became the first to retrieve samples from the far side of the Moon. In October last year, Nasa chief Bill Nelson told Reuters American and Chinese space ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

UK researchers begin analysing lunar dust from China’s Chang’e 5 mission to uncover secrets of the Moon’s origin and Earth’s ...

And with robotic missions and progress to a moon base, the Chinese are leading. In this decade they have conducted two lunar sample returns with rovers, including one to the lunar far side.

Professor Mahesh Anand is the only scientist in the UK to have been loaned this extremely rare material, which he describes ...