The New Moon will be closest to Earth on Saturday, January 21, 2023. This rare incident is taking place for the first time after 993 years.

The Lunar New Year begins on Sunday, January 22, and is one of the world's largest festivities to herald the entrance of spring.

Each new year in the lunar calendar, on which the holiday is based, is represented by one of the Chinese zodiac's 12 animals and this time ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a spacecraft of a startup to the Moon at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Sunday. It is the first-ever lunar missio...

The spacecraft, produced by Tokyo-based startup ispace, blasted off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 2:38 am (0738 GMT), live footage of the lau...

The sculptures will travel on the "Nova-C Lunar Lander," designed by private company Intuitive Machines, and will be placed on the surface ...

The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on December 8, 2018, made the first-ever soft landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin...

The country has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United States and Russia, whose astronauts and cosmonauts have decades of ...

Beijing has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually se...

The rocket, which will send the Chang'e-5 spacecraft to Earth-moon transfer orbit, is scheduled to be launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft...

China today named the landing site of its first moon lander Chang'e-3 as "Guang Han Gong" or "Moon Palace", more than two years after the s...

In an interesting find, Chinese scientists say the Moon could have at least nine layers beneath its surface.

With an estimated 1.6 billion tonnes of water ice at its poles and an abundance of rare-earth elements hidden below the lunar surface, expe...

China has not announced plan for a Mars probe, but Ouyang Ziyuan in China's moon probe mission, has said China plans to land a Mars rover a...

China landed Jade Rabbit, named after a lunar goddess in traditional Chinese mythology, in mid-December to domestic fanfare on a mission to...

These findings will help scientists to understand the terrain, geological structure, material composition and soil formation of the Moon.

Chang'e-3 probe entered the lunar orbit after about 112 hours on a Earth-Moon transfer orbit, the BACC said.