Chinese spacecraft begins 53-day journey to collect soil and rocks and bring them back to Earth for study It will also ...

Meteors will be streaking across the sky as Earth passes through dusty debris in space left by Halley's Comet in the annual ...

The Chang’e-6 mission aims to land in the Moon’s oldest and largest crater, collect rocks, and bring them back to Earth.

What he and colleagues hope to extract, though, are platinum-group metals, some of which are used in devices like catalytic ...

As China launches its Chang’e-6 mission to the far side of the moon, US officials have expressed alarm at the pace of its ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he ...

While Chang’e-6 aims to retrieve rocks from the Moon’s far side ... payloads carried by the Chang’e-6 include a French radon gas detector, a Swedish ion analyser, an Italian laser corner ...

When the Chang’e-4 mission landed in the Von Karman crater on January 3, 2019, China became the first and only country to land on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away ...

In the young solar system, the four gas giant planets —Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — were nestled closer together. Over time, gravitational interactions with planetesimals beyond ...

Idaho's Craters of the Moon was one of the 1st sites the National Park Service applied climate change science to its planning ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, May 9, 2024, the moon is 1 day old and is in the new moon phase of its lunar cycle. It is 2% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the night sky.