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.

BEIJING (AP) — 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 ...

A large screen shows news video of a Chinese national flag carried by the Chang'e-6 lunar probe's lander on the far side of the moon, in Beijing, China, June 4, 2024. Tingshu Wang/REUTERS ...

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.

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 ...

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.

A Chinese lunar probe returns to Earth with the world's first samples from the far side of the moon While past U.S. and Soviet missions have collected samples from the moon's near side, the ...

Chinese lunar probe returns to Earth with the world’s first samples from the far side of the moon by: The Associated Press Posted: Jun 25, 2024 / 06:18 AM EDT Updated: Jun 25, 2024 / 06:18 AM EDT ...