China’s Chang’e-6 lunar module returned to Earth on Tuesday, successfully completing its historic mission to collect the first samples from the far side of the moon in a major step for the country’s ambitious space program. The reentry module “landed successfully” at a designated area in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region just after 2pm local… Read More »
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. Humans landed on the moon during NASA’s Apollo program in the late 1960s and 1970s using computers with much less processing power than today’s smartphones. Still, even fifty years later,… Read More »
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. Humans landed on the moon during NASA’s Apollo program in the late 1960s and 1970s using computers with much less processing power than today’s smartphones. Still, even fifty years later,… Read More »
2023 has been a big year for lunar science. India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands near the Moon’s south pole; This is a major achievement for a country that is relatively new to the space scene, especially after the crash of the Chandrayaan-2 craft in 2019. At the same time, NASA is preparing for a series of… Read More »