China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, ...

The Chang'e-6 probe's return capsule, which contained lunar samples from the moon's far side, is shown on June 25 after landing in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

Scientists expect the Chang'e 6 samples to deliver not only key geologic knowledge about the moon, but also improve their understanding of Earth and the solar system's early history.

The Chang’e 6 farside sample-return mission was launched by a Long March 5 rocket on May 3, 2024, from China’s Wenchang Space Launch Site on the island of Hainan.

Chang'e 6 returned samples to Earth on June 25, 2024. Lunar scientists like myself have been fascinated with the far side of the Moon since the Soviet Union’s Luna 3 mission in 1959, which revealed ...

A series of research findings by Chinese scientists on the samples collected by the Chang'e-6 mission from the moon's far ...

For decades, scientists have wondered why the moon’s two sides are so different. The side we see from Earth, known as the ...

Research teams led by CAS institutions including the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) and the National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC), along with Nanjing University and others, have made ...