On March 27,the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)released the annual“Top 10 Science Advances of China”for the year 2024.Topping the list was a research that revealed volcanic activities occurring ab...
A high-profile event in 2024 for the science community and the public as well,the Chang’e-6(CE-6)mission repeatedly hit headlines from March to June 2024.First in March 2024,the launching of the Queqiao-2,a relay sat...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China;the CAS;the National Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province
Metallic iron nanoparticles(npFe0)are widespread on the Moon,and their accumulation changes the optical spectra of the lunar surface over time.How the surface color changes largely depends on the size of npFe0:smaller...
On June 16,at a forum held during the session of the Global Space Exploration Conference,a hybrid meeting occurring both online and offline,China and Russia jointly released the International Lunar Research Station Ro...
Special|Return of Chang’e-5 On December 17 we just witnessed the sophisticated re-entry of a Chang’e-5capsule into the terrestrial atmosphere,together with about 2kg lunar soils and rocks. Its milestone touchdown ma...
Carrying the lunar samples collected and sealed by the lander-ascender complex,the returner capsule of Chang’e-5 (CE-5) safely touched d own on the snowy prairie of Inner Mongolia, China at 1:59 am (GMT+8) on Decembe...
Previous rosearch suggested that the lunar crust as well as the mantle could both have formed at the infanlile stage of the Moon's evolution.At this stage,major crashes and the accretion process generated a great amou...
China’s future lunar and deep space missions will embrace international cooperation at a more extensive and intensive level, as unveiled late July at the 4th International Conference on Lunar and Deep Space Explorati...
On January 3,2019,the Chang’e 4 probe sent back photos of the Von Karman crater in the South Pole-Aitken basin,after its successful soft landing, the first ever by a man-made vehicle, on the surface of the far side o...
On May 21,2018,China successfully launched a relay satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center to an orbit beyond the moon,setting the stage for the first soft-landing on the lunar far side while opening up a n...