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Lunar lander designed to be the first to bring materials back from the surface that faces away from Earth.

The capsule carried around 250g of rocks and dust collected from the asteroid Bennu as part of Nasa’s Osiris-Rex mission.

China plans to launch an uncrewed probe to collect asteroid samples in 2025, according to the country's official news agency.

Chinese scientists have discovered a new mineral on the moon, making China the third nation after the United States and Russia to have discovered a lunar mineral, officials reported on Friday (Sept 9). The mineral, called Changesite-(Y), was found in rock and dust samples retrieved from the moon by China’s Chang’e-5 mission , the nation’s first mission to return a...

Beijing, January 8 Yutu-2, the lander and rover of China's Chang'e 4 lunar probe which scripted history in 2019 when it made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, has travelled 1,0

BEIJING: China’s Mars rover Zhurong has travelled more than 1,000m on the surface of the red planet, the Lunar Exploration and Space Programme Centre of the China National Space Admin­istration (CNSA) said.

BEIJING, July 18 (Xinhua): Chinas Mars rover Zhurong has travelled more than 509 metres on the surface of the red planet as of 11pm on Saturday (July 17), according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Programme Centre of the China National Space Administration. The rover will soon arrive at the second sand dune on its journey on the red planet. It will carry out a detailed survey of the dune and surrounding environment, said the administration. As of Saturday, Zhurong has been operating on the s...

China lands its rover on Mars PTI Beijing | Updated on × Tianwen-1, launched on July 23, 2020, aimed at orbiting, landing, and roving — all in one mission — on the red planet China has successfully landed a spacecraft on Mars after surviving "nine minutes of terror", the official media announced on Saturday, becoming the second country in history to have a rover on the red planet. The rover, Zhurong, named after a god of fire and war in Chinese mythology, landed at the pre-selected area i...

Share The Change-5 lunar probe gathers samples on the Moon -- it has now returned safely to Earth. China’s first craft returns to Earth with Moon rocks Thu, 17 December 2020 An unmanned Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the Moon returned safely to Earth early on December 17, completing another chapter in China’s effort to become a space superpower. The mission was the first in four decades to collect lunar samples, emulating the feats of the US and the Soviet Union from the 19...