In a historic first, the Chang'e 6 sample-return mission earlier this year brought 4.27 pounds (1.935 kilograms) of soil and rock samples back from the Moon's farside. This first-ever sampling of ...

Research work on building China's Chang'e 7 lunar exploration mission includes sending a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. "We know that the moon is vacuum with no ...

New findings from China’s Chang’e-5 mission shed light on this question, offering fresh insights into the Moon's geological activity. The Moon’s surface features vast plains of basaltic rock ...

After launching from Wenchang Space Launch Center, the Chang'e-6 spacecraft had been orbiting the Moon waiting to land. The lander component of the mission then separated from the orbiter to touch ...

The Chang’e 5 lunar mission returned to Earth early Thursday morning with the first moon samples in 44 years, making China the third country to have achieved this, state media announced.

Chinese scientists discovered that the moon's magnetic field lasted much longer than expected, persisting into its midlife. By studying tiny rocks brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission, they found the ...

A large team of researchers with varied backgrounds at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has found evidence of a weak magnetic field on the moon ... China's Chang'e-5 lunar exploration mission.