Chang'e 5 Lifted Off the Moon Carrying Lunar Dust and Boulders

Medicine & Technology Dec 04, 2020

The Chinese moon probe is expected to land in Inner Mongolia in less than two weeks. It has collected 2kg (4.4lb) of samples from the lunar surface.

Chang'e-5 Moon Probe Returns With New Photos of the Moon

Dec 03, 2020

China's Chang'e 5 probe landed on the Moon to study the first lunar rock samples in decades.

China's Chang’e-5 Spacecraft Has Landed on the Moon for Samples

Dec 02, 2020

Chang’e-5 spacecraft completes 112-hour journey from Earth, according to Beijing’s space agency.

China’s Chang’e 5 Spacecraft Enters Lunar Orbit

Nov 30, 2020

Several days after taking off on what's described as a "heavy-lift" Long March 5 rocket, the Chang'e 5 sample return spacecraft of China entered orbit around the moon.

China Launches Chang'e 5 to Collect Lunar Rocks

Nov 24, 2020

Chang’e-5 spacecraft’s bounty may bring great scientific value. Four decades have passed since Earth had lunar samples.

New Lunar Samples Could "Rewrite the History of the Moon"

Nov 06, 2020

China's Chang'e missions aims to overcome numerous obstacles to collect samples from the far side of the Moon.

China Space Probe Returns from Trip to the Moon—3rd Place in ‘Space Race’

Nov 01, 2014

About 40 years late to the “Space Race”, this morning Saturday Nov. 1, 2014, China became the third nation in the world to successfully orbit the moon and return to Earth to tell the tale. As China’s space agency continues to move forward in its ambitious space program, the lunar orbiter marks a great first success for the mission, and undoubtedly shows its growing presence as a space agency in the world. The eight day turn-around trip came to a close this morning after the test lunar orbiter landed about 500 km away from Beijing, in the Siziwang Banner of China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region according to the nation’s Xinhua state-run news agency.