The mission team knows Lunar Trailblazer's precise position thanks to ground-based tracking, NASA officials said the update.

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the daytime.

BEIJING: Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on ... Moon by the end of the decade and eventually build a base on the lunar surface. Its latest launch last week ferried a trio of astronauts ...

While a lunar ... Chinese Lunar Exploration Project, said last year that a “basic model” of the ILRS, with the Moon's south pole as its core, would be built by 2035. The Chang’e lunar probe ...

Prof Mahesh Anand, who is based at the OU's Milton Keynes laboratories, is to receive materials from the Chinese ... sample returns - the last of which was conducted by a Soviet probe in 1976.

The Chinese agency had received requests to borrow the moon rocks from 11 nations, Mr Shan said. “China’s lunar exploration programme has always adhered to the principles of equality ...

NASA's more ambitious and sophisticated Artemis mission, which seeks to return US men to ... and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The construction stage of Wu's "basic model" ...

Preliminary plans for the China and Russia-led international lunar research station (ILRS) include building a nuclear reactor on the moon’s surface, a presentation by a Chinese space official on ...

China Lunar Chief ... with "China or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are specifically authorised." While ESA sent a payload aboard China's latest lunar probe, the Chang'e-6 ...

WASHINGTON: The United States space agency NASA has released its first look of China's Chang'e-4 Lunar Landing Site. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) approached the Von Karman crater on which ...

The reason for the changing date is that Chinese New Year’s timing is based on the lunar year used for the Chinese calendar, which is sometimes called the Chinese Agricultural Calendar.

Wu Weiren, CPPCC member and chief designer of China's lunar probe program speaks to the media before the opening session of CPPCC ...