The first-ever samples from the far side of the Moon have touched down on Earth. China’s Chang’e 6 capsule landed on Tuesday in Inner Mongolia, carrying rocks that could confirm or debunk ...

BEIJING--China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth on Tuesday with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in northern China ...

A Chinese lunar probe found traces of water in samples of the moon's soil, scientists have said, as the country pushes its ...

By analysing lunar samples from NASA's Apollo missions, researchers calculated exactly when – and why – the moon was once ...

News hit earlier this month that the infamous “cockroach moon dust” was up for auction? Turns out, NASA is trying to block the sale as they assert that they own all the lunar material brought ...

Now, after decades of waiting, some of those Moon rock samples will finally be unsealed for study. As AP reports, the samples have been sitting under lock and key at NASA’s Johnson Space Center ...

[1] “Hong Kong people will have their first chance next Saturday to look closely at a piece of the moon,” reported the South China Morning Post on December 28, 1969. “One of the rock samples ...

The first Moon rocks to be brought back to Earth in more than 40 years are almost two billion-year-old, analysis has revealed. Researchers studying samples returned by China’s Chang’e-5 mission report ...

light-colored swirls on Moon's surface could be rocks magnetized by magma activity underground, laboratory experiments ... Geologists Expect Chang'e-6 Lunar Surface Samples to Contain Volcanic ...

The Chang'e-5 rover completed its mission in 2020, returning to Earth with rock and soil samples from the Moon. The lunar samples "revealed the presence of trace water", the group of scientists ...