#Chang'e 4

Author: Meghan Bartels / Source: Space.com (Image: © CNSA) The lunar home of China’s Chang’e-4 lander, which landed on the far side of the moon Jan. 3, now has a name: Statio Tianhe. Statio means a post or station in Latin and is also used in the formal name for the Apollo 11 landing site,

Author: VICTOR TANGERMANN / Source: ScienceAlert We’ve seen it before, but never this clearly. For the first time, China’s Longjiang-2 satellite photographed the entirety of the Moon’s far side and the Earth in a single shot, Popular Mechanics reports. The 16 kilobyte image was downloaded by the

In the beginning of January, 2019, a Chinese probe did what no human or machine has ever accomplished. It landed on the far side of the Moon. Recently, it took another giant leaf for mankind by growing the first plant there. Cotton. In the past, living organisms have been grown on the

Author: Stephen Johnson / Source: Big Think China’s Chang’e 4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the moon on January 3. In addition to a lunar rover, the lander carried a biosphere experiment that contains five sets of plants and some insects. The experiment is designed to test how

Authored by Peter Korzun via The Strategic Culture Foundation, China and Russia are set to sign a milestone agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 to 2022, sending manned missions to the Moon for the first time. The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar