The highly anticipated launch of China’s robotic Chang’e-7 mission, designed to scour the moon’s south pole for water ice — ...

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Once highly classified in remote deserts, China's space launches have increasingly been open to public viewing as the country ...

Chinese officials said the mission, the seventh in the Chang’e moon exploration program, does not meet the launch conditions and “cannot take place during the planned window this year.” ...

We've known for nearly two decades that some form of water exists on the moon. What we still don't know is exactly how much ...

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China’s Chang’e-7 mission will use an orbiter, lander, rover and jumping robot to investigate water ice near the Moon’s south ...

We’ve known for a while now that the Moon has water. Accessing it will make it easier not just to visit, but to stay.

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New chronology, data about the moon's far side and a homegrown cartographic standard signal China's ambitions for how the ...

The country’s latest mission, Chang’e-7, will be the first to ever land directly at the moon’s south pole. Whatever it finds ...