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By Liz Lee, Joey Roulette and Joe Brock BEIJING (Reuters) - China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday, a landmark mission aiming to retrieve the world's first rock and soil samples from the dark

By Albee Zhang and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) - China will send a robotic spacecraft in coming days on a round trip to the moon's far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that will pave the way for

Japanese astronaut: The United States is the only country to have taken its astronauts to the Moon. So far, twelve men have walked on lunar soil, but there will be big news in the coming years. The first will bear

By Joey Roulette and Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies, as the United States aims to set international norms in space

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An array of unconventional, privately funded plans to exploit the moon, including as a site for human ashes and sports-drink containers, has gathered steam in recent years as NASA pushes to make Earth's natural satellite

By Joey Roulette, Nivedita Bhattacharjee and Ryan Woo WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two U.S. setbacks this week in the race to the moon with China illustrate the risks of NASA's plans to bet on a new strategy of relying heavily on private

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A robotic lander built by a private company was bound for the moon on Monday in an attempt to make the first U.S. lunar soft landing in more than half a century, after launching into

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - During the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon - U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected about 243 pounds (110.4 kg) of soil and rock samples

By Alberto Fajardo CAMPECHE, Mexico (Reuters) - Thousands of people across the Americas gazed at the heavens on Saturday to witness a rare phenomenon known as an annular solar eclipse, when the moon passes in front of the sun, momentarily producing

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