As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive ...

Ultimately, the samples will plunge back to Earth in a protected capsule — similar to China's successful moon rock return in ...

The cohort's dive... NASA and Chinese officials are engaged in talks to let American scientists analyze rocks retrieved by China from the moon's far side, according to the head of the US space agency.

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

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Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has announced a tender process for a lunar satellite to support the country’s first crewed moon landing and ...

China unveiled on Wednesday the name of its manned moon rover for the country's lunar exploration program. The China Manned Space Agency said the rover has been named "Tansuo," meaning "Exploration." ...

Another sample return mission from the far side in 2024 delivers rocks and soil from the less explored part of the moon . Seen as NASA’s biggest moon rival, China aims to put its astronauts on ...

The country’s previous lander — 1976’s Luna 24 — not only landed, but returned moon rocks to Earth. India triumphs on take 2 After its first lander slams into the moon in 2019, India ...