China’s Chang’e-6 mission has returned nearly two kilograms of rock and soil from the moon’s far side, and the laboratory results are forcing scientists to rethink how the moon formed and evolved.

In the two-way race between the U.S. and China to put humans back on the moon, the lunar south pole is widely considered the most prized place to land. The South Pole–Aitken Basin—the moon’s largest ...

A new study highlights the volcanic Rimae Bode region as a scientifically promising destination for China's first crewed moon landing mission, which the nation wants to achieve by 2030.

Recent advances in AI are helping scientists unlock new secrets about the Moon’s far ...

An obscure lunar region called Rimae Bode is emerging as a high-priority landing site for China’s first crewed moon mission ...

Astronomers refer to the side we always see from Earth as the “near side” and the side we can never see as the “far side.” The far side of the moon: What China and the world hope to find In a ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission has landed on the far side of the Moon — a region we almost never see. The probe is drilling into the South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the most violent impact sites in the ...

Chinese scientists have leveraged artificial intelligence to determine the chemical composition of the moon's elusive far ...

Findings add to a growing body of insights from China's historic Chang'e-6 mission to the lunar far side in 2024 Chinese scientists have used AI to determine the chemical make-up of the moon's far ...

BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) -- A team of Chinese scientists has unveiled a high-resolution atlas detailing the global distribution of lunar surface chemistry, a significant advance that fills a ...