China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

Chang'e 6's samples from the lunar far side contain a record of ancient volcanism, magnetism and a mantle depleted in important elements and water.

Scientists from China extracted water from lunar soil and used it to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and chemicals for ...

China’s lunar mission to bring back the first samples ever collected from the moon’s far side is on schedule for next year, officials say, as Beijing ramps up its ambitious plan to send ...

Head of NASA concerned China could try to claim lunar territory on moon's south pole 03:39. Beijing - China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe returned to Earth on Tuesday with rock and soil samples from the ...

The recent moon-landing scoreboard is "4 to 0.5" in favor of China, Simone Dell'Agnello, a researcher who collaborated with Chang'e 6, told The Wall Street Journal.

China's national flag is seen unfurled from the Chang'e-5 spacecraft on the moon, in this handout image provided by China National Space Administration (CNSA) on December 4, 2020.

The mission follows another in 2020 when its predecessor, Chang’e-5, gathered nearly four pounds of regolith from the moon’s near side and brought it to Earth. By analyzing the samples, China ...

China's Chang'e-4 lunar lander is just part of an ambitious long-term space ... landed on the moon in 2013, making China the third country after the U.S. and the Soviet Union to soft-land a ...

China’s latest robotic probe, called Chang’e 6, landed on the far side of the moon. That’s a much more challenging task because the far side faces away from our planet and there’s no ...