This image shows the Chinese moon lander, called Lanyue, successfully completing take-off and landing tests on 6 August at a site in Heibei Province ...

"There are lots of opportunities to use the testbed for lunar excavation testing, construction, mobility, sensing, dust ...

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer, a mission designed to create high-resolution maps of water on the Moon, ended after losing contact ...

Lunar Trailblazer was set to map the Moon’s water in unprecedented detail but was lost after a communications failure soon ...

The astronaut was portrayed by Tom Hanks in Ron Howard's 1995 movie about the expedition, in which Hanks famously said, "Houston, we have a problem." ...

Astronaut James Lovell, who was commander of the 1970 Apollo 13 mission that managed to get back to earth safely after an ...

The China Manned Space Agency announced that its manned lunar lander—named Lanyue, which means embracing the ...

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The prototype lander — dubbed the Lanyue, meaning "embrace the moon" was tested at a facility in Hebei province of China.

By Koh Hyunjeong The country's first lunar orbiter Danuri has completed the world's fourth complete map of the moon's surface ...

The space agency added that from the limited data it had received, it appeared that the spacecraft’s solar arrays had failed to properly orient toward the sun, causing its batteries to lose power.

"While it was not the outcome we had hoped for, mission experiences like Lunar Trailblazer help us to learn and reduce the ...