'Futurism' reports that the historic feat resulted in the first-ever samples collected from the far side of the Moon, which permanently faces away from the Earth. The trip also saw the lander deposit several scientific payloads, including the Negative Ions at the Lunar Surface (NILS) instrument for the European Space Agency.
China’s Chang’e-6 lunar module returned to Earth Tuesday, completing its historic mission to collect the first ever samples from the far side of the moon in a major step forward for the country’s ambitious space program.
Suspected debris from a Chinese rocket was seen plummeting to the ground over a village in southwest China on Saturday, leaving a trail of bright yellow smoke and sending villagers running, according to videos on Chinese social media and sent to CNN by a local witness.
Boeing is still struggling to figure out if its plagued Starliner spacecraft, which is currently docked to the International Space Station, can safely return NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. The pair, who managed to get to the space station in one piece earlier this month, are stuck there indefinitely after NASA and […]
China's lunar probe has returned to Earth, making the country the first to bring back samples from the moon's far side. The re-entry capsule of the Chang'e probe touched down in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia at about 2pm Beijing time (7am UK time), carrying lunar soil collected earlier in June. At the start of the month, the probe had successfully landed at the moon's South Pole, in the Aitken Basin, a gigantic impact crater that always faces away from Earth.
Researchers have long puzzled over the peculiar innards of an ancient sea creature. A new study says scientists were looking at the Pikaia fossil the wrong way.
Boeing's (BA) Starliner continues to experience malfunctions with its spacecraft, delaying a scheduled return trip for two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Yahoo Finance Reporter Ines Ferré joins Morning Brief to discuss Boeing's latest development regarding its Starliner and what it means for astronauts in space. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Morning Brief. This post was written by Nicholas Jacobino
The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way not taken into account by current models of future sea level rise, according to a new study.
US astronauts Tracy Dyson and Mike Barratt abandoned plans to exit the International Space Station on Monday to conduct maintenance due to a spacesuit malfunction.
As part of Yahoo Finance's Space Race: Investing in the Final Frontier special, Voyager Space Co-Founder and President Matthew Kuta sits down with Brad Smith to discuss the future of private sector operators in the space economy as the International Space Station (ISS) could be retired in the coming years. "If you go back to the time of the space shuttle, to launch a kilogram into space was incredibly expensive, like $1 million. And now as commercialization has taken hold, launching mass into orbit, the order of a kilogram is much less, you know, $1,000," Kuta comments. "So a lot of business models start to close now, now that you can actually get stuff to orbit, much more cost-effective. And then now that we're able to have these business models that actually close, you're actually able to use space not just for space, but space to improve humanity here on Earth." Kuta outlines that sustainability and adaptability are a major part of the developing private space economy: "Imagine flying a [Boeing] 747, every time you landed, you threw the airplane away, right? And you didn't reuse it." Lastly, Kuta finds that despite its vast differences in other industries, space companies need to be run and operated like any other business for the public to have trust in it, including communications teams and outreach: "And to me, the more you get people at the grassroots level just involved in space, the more it kind of starts to percolate up." Catch up on Yahoo Finance's special coverage as part of this week's Space Race: Investing in the Final Frontier series. For more expert insight and the latest market action, click here to watch this full episode of Asking for a Trend. This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan. Follow along Yahoo Finance's latest coverage of the growing space economy: We need a regulatory framework for today's space race: Expert Boeing Starliner issues leave astronauts stranded in space These are the next big catalysts for the space industry
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