When the crew of Apollo 17 left the lunar surface and returned to Earth in December 1972, they brought with them samples of a particularly interesting area of the Moon. Those samples were deliberately ...

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Hong Kong (CNN) — As Chinese scientists analyzed the soil samples that their lunar probe brought back from the moon, they realized something groundbreaking: There was water found along with minerals ...

Less visible and vocal than its American counterpart, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) is hard at work expanding the Asian country's presence on the Moon. Not only that, but the ...

It's been more than a year now since a Chinese mission to the Moon called Chang'e-6 made its way back to Earth, bringing with it 1,935.3 grams (some 4.3 pounds) of lunar far-side samples. Thanks to ...

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