A glass bead retrieved by China's Chang'e-5 lunar mission is offering a glimpse into the moon's hidden interior and violent past. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu.

The Chang'e-4 mission's Yutu-2Rover is still active on the lunar surface. The Chang'e-4 mission landed on the moon in 2019. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV ...

Precious moon samples brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission in 2020 have finally been shared with international researchers — but the law has made it difficult for U.S.-based ...

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Sign in by ...

Additionally, the US Department of Energy has agreed to purchase 3 liters of helium-3 harvested from the Moon, no later than April 2029. As we wrote in 2024 , Helium-3 is a stable isotope of ...

More recently, in 2019, China’s Chang’e 4 achieved the first soft landing on the Moon’s far side. And in 2023, India’s Chandrayaan-3 became the first to land successfully near the lunar ...

More recently, in 2019, China’s Chang’e 4 achieved the first soft landing on the Moon’s far side. And in 2023, India’s Chandrayaan-3 became the first to land successfully near the lunar ...