A part of Chang’e 7 mission, China is set to create a flag designed to wave on the Moon, despite the lack of oxygen. Image: American flag on the moon during a historic mission. Credit: NASA / Public ...

This year promises to be among the most tantalizing yet in humanity’s renewed push to explore the moon, with the United States and its allies as well as China scrambling to send robots to the ...

Research work on building China's Chang'e 7 lunar exploration mission includes sending a flag that can flutter in the moon's thin and tenuous atmosphere. "We know that the moon is vacuum with no ...

The World Monuments Fund list seeks to raise awareness and funds to help preserve the sites it spotlights. Africa's Swahili ...

Researchers analysing lunar samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission have uncovered evidence of ancient volcanic activity on the Moon’s far side. The mission, which returned nearly two ...

What is the moon phase today? Today, Jan. 15, 2025, the moon is 16 days old, in the Waning Gibbous phase of its lunar cycle. It is 97% illuminated. Moon phases reveal the passage of time in the ...

Is China exploiting South Korea's political crisis? China has installed a floating structure in disputed waters near South Korea, which analysts suggest may be an attempt to advance territorial ...

But one unconventional solution could be out of this world or somewhat out of this atmosphere. Having already established itself as a significant player in space exploration, China now has its eyes on ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

The strength of the lunar magnetic field may have shot up about 2.8 billion years ago, a Chinese study of samples from the far side of the moon suggests. The study, published online on Thursday in ...

Testing these hypotheses will require more samples from the Moon. Fortunately, China’s Chang’e 6 mission just returned samples from the dark side of the Moon in June 2024. If these samples ...

There are more ways for people to travel to space than ever before, and the next few decades are likely to see the US and China sending humans to the Moon again. Both countries aim to set up ...