In 2009, India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft had discovered similar hydrated minerals containing oxygen and hydrogen molecules in sunlit regions of the moon.
Chinese scientists expect the retrieved samples to contain 2.5-million-year-old volcanic rock and other materials that researchers believe will provide insights into geographic disparities between the moon's two hemispheres.
NASA unveils plans to construct the first lunar railway station, introducing the Flexible Levitation on a Track (FLOAT) system for efficient payload transport on the Moon's surface.
The six-legged, uncrewed robot spacecraft reached the lunar surface on Thursday after a nail-biting final approach and descent in which a problem surfaced with the lander's navigation system, requiring engineers on the ground to employ an untested work-around at the 11th hour.
US scripts history: The Odysseus spacecraft, representing the United States, achieved a historic milestone with the first commercial lunar landing in American history. Led by Intuitive Machines (IM), this landmark event highlights the role of private ventures in advancing space exploration.
According to NASA, the satellite and its two instruments will observe the universe’s hottest regions, largest structures and objects with the strongest gravity.
Chandrayaan-3: For the next 13 days, Pragyan rover will conduct all the tests while walking on the lunar surface 500 meters away from the lander.
Chandrayaan-3: The Indian spacecraft has covered about two-thirds of the distance to the Moon since its launch on July 14.
Chandrayaan-3 Mission: Chandrayaan-3 is carrying the scientific instruments to study thermophysical properties of the lunar regolith, lunar seismicity, lunar surface plasma environment and elemental composition in the vicinity of the landing site on the Moon.
South Korea is on track for its first lunar mission, with its first launch of a lunar orbiter slated for the second half of 2022, the country's space research institute said on Sunday, after the country's lunar project suffered multiple delays.
As part of its early operation, it has detected 40Ar in the lunar exosphere from an altitude of about100 km, capturing the day-night variations of concentration.
By studying these precious lunar samples for the first time, a new generation of scientists will help advance our understanding of our lunar neighbour
The lunar rover would provide a first close-up of the part of moon that is eternally out of view from Earth.
Lunar swirls resemble bright, snaky clouds painted on the Moon's dark surface. The most famous, called Reiner Gamma, is about 40 miles long and popular with backyard astronomers.
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has taken some stunning pictures of the lunar transit when the moon appeared to move between the spacecraft and the sun on August 2, 2016. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
Cape Canaveral, Florida, Dec 8: The last total lunar eclipse of the year is Saturday. And there won't be another one for three years.Viewers in the western half of the United States will have the
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