A startup company wants to establish mining operations on the moon to extract a rare isotope needed for future quantum ...

NANJING -- A team of Chinese scientists has created a six-legged "space mining robot" inspired by insects, which could be ...

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We are about to witness the second Blood Moon Purim eclipse on Thursday night, and there will be a third Blood Moon Purim ...

The Houston-based company put its Athena spacecraft on the moon just after 12:30 p.m. ET. The landing site closer to the lunar south pole than any human or vehicle has traveled before.

The first study on the Moon samples brought back by the Chinese Chang'e-6 mission show that the Moon's far side was just as molten as the near one eons ago.

The four-legged Blue Ghost carried 10 scientific payloads as it touched down near an ancient volcanic vent on Mare Crisium, a ...

Once a beacon of opportunity, Thailand’s vibrant condo market for Chinese investors is now dimming, as economic clouds gather over China’s middle class. Stephen Yao, a former Chinese investments ...

China follows with the Yutu-2 rover in 2019, this time touching down on the moon's unexplored far side an impressive first. A sample return mission on the moon's near side in 2020 yields nearly 4 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses.

The country’s previous lander — 1976’s Luna 24 — not only landed, but returned moon rocks to Earth. After its first lander slams into the moon in 2019, India regroups and launches Chandrayaan-3 (Hindi ...