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

They also saw an imprint from the rocket exhaust when Surveyor 6 lifted off. Surveyor 6 showed that spacecraft could land on ...

The Earth’s natural resources are enormous but not infinite. A lack of some rare minerals can hinder technological ...

When discussing NASA's Apollo 11 mission, most people remember Neil Armstrong ... as they were the first individuals to set foot on the Moon, experiencing its reduced gravity and collecting samples.

NEW YORK — Volcanoes were erupting on the mysterious far side of the moon billions of years ago just like on the side that we ...

The moon has a global dichotomy, with its near and far sides having different geomorphology, topography, chemical composition ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

The first lunar samples from the moon’s far side differ in some interesting ways from those collected from the near side, ...

Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...

NASA has marked the 55th anniversary of Apollo 12 - world's second manned mission to the Moon. Astronauts Charles "Pete" ...