The spacecraft, about the size of a small car, conducted a series of experiments. It drilled three feet into the lunar soil, took X-ray images of the magnetic bubble that surrounds and protects Earth ...

Firefly’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 set a new benchmark for commercial lunar exploration, lasting longer than any previous private ...

Firefly Aerospace’s successful moon lander has yielded a trove of data that scientists will pore over for years.

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It noted that knowing the formation time of the 2,500-kilometer-wide SPA basin, which is located on the moon's far side, ...

The Chang'e-6 probe was launched from China on May 3, 2024. On June 25, 2024, its returner landed in North China, bringing back 1,935.3 grams of samples from the far side of the moon. [Xinhua] BEIJING ...

Ranger 9 was the final mission of Nasa’s Ranger program, a series of lunar probes designed to scout out potential landing sites and study the Moon’s surface up close. Unlike its predecessors, which ...

lunar probes and Martian rovers. His team is currently working with Wuxi Beta Pharmatech in developing the second-generation prototype "Zhulong 2" with fully enclosed C-14 micro-nuclear cells, and ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...

Chinese scientists, using lunar soil samples brought back by Chang'e-6, have determined that the Moon's oldest and largest impact crater, the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin, was formed 4.25 billion ...