Chang’E-2
Volcanic Hotspot Found on the Moon
A recent study published in Nature examines a volcanic hotspot that potentially exists beneath a feature on the Moon’s farside…
China Launches Moon Mission to Test Key Lunar Sample Return Technologies
China launched a robotic mission to the Moon today (Oct. 23 EDT/Oct. 24 BJT) that will test a slew of…
China’s Chang’e-3 Moon Rover Descends to Lower Orbit Sets Up Historic Soft Landing
All systems appear to be “GO” for the world’s first attempt to soft land a space probe on the Moon…
China’s Maiden Moon Rover Mission Chang’e 3 Achieves Lunar Orbit
China’s maiden moon landing probe successfully entered lunar orbit on Friday, Dec. 6, following Sunday’s (Dec. 1) spectacular blastoff -…
Bazinga: Mysterious Earth Orbiting Asteroid Turns Out to be Space Junk
Can’t find asteroid 2010 QW1 in the Minor Planet Database? No, the “Men in Black” didn’t secretly remove this Earth-orbiting…
‘Space Class’ Among Aims of Chinese Taikonauts Who Left Earth Today
Riding atop a fiery Long March rocket, three taikonauts blasted off from Earth today (June 11) to kick off an…
China Unveils High Resolution Global Moon Map
[/caption] Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of…
Cool Chang’E 2 Videos
Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society blog unearthed some really cool videos taken by the Chinese Chang'E 2 spacecraft at…
First Images From Chang’E 2 Released
[/caption] China’s space agency released the first images taken by the newest lunar orbiter, Chang’E 2. “The relaying back of…
China Launches Second Moon Mission
China successfully launched their second robotic mission, Chang'E-2, to the Moon. A Long March 3C rocket blasted off from Xichang…