By HUIZHONG WU BANGKOK (AP) — China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in the ...

Also known as the Moon Festival, families traditionally gather together to celebrate the harvest season under a luminous full moon on the 15th day of the 8th month in the Chinese lunar calendar.

BANGKOK, Thailand — China's Chang'e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. The probe landed in the Inner Mongolian ...

The Chang’e-6 probe was launched last month and its lander touched down on the far side of the moon on Sunday. Its ascender lifted off Tuesday morning at 7:38 a.m. Beijing time (7:38 p.m. Monday ...

More recently, Nasa announced the discovery of water on the Moon’s sunlit surface in 2020, followed by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar lander sending back the first on-site evidence of lunar water.

China's first moon landing came in 2013, when its Chang’e 3 mission made it the third country after the U.S. and the former Soviet Union to successfully put a spacecraft on the lunar surface.

China's Chang'e 6 probe returned on Earth with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of the moon in a global first. “I now declare that the Chang’e 6 Lunar Exploration ...