China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration ...

China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration ...

It's been more than a year now since a Chinese mission to the Moon called Chang'e-6 made its way back to Earth, bringing with it 1,935.3 grams (some 4.3 pounds) of lunar far-side samples. Thanks to ...

When the Chang’e 6 return capsule touched down in the dusty plains of Inner Mongolia in June 2024, it carried something no nation had ever retrieved: the first samples from the far side of the Moon.

It's called the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, and it is, as far as we know, the largest, deepest and oldest impact crater on the far side of the Moon. The place was born some 4, 4.3 billion years ago ...

A growing fleet of privately built spacecraft is preparing to attempt robotic landings on the moon as humanity's exploration ...