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China’s moon mission saw the Chang’e-5 space lander make a historic collection of samples from the lunar surface.
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China’s young talent scheme lures smart materials scientist Li Yongxi from US

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Award-winning young materials scientist Li Yongxi has left the US in favour of a research position in China. Photo: Nanjing University

Former Harvard professor convicted over China ties joins Tsinghua University

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Charles Lieber was found guilty in 2021 of hiding his ties to a Chinese talent programme. Photo: AP

Chinese AI scientists may threaten US tech dominance, think tank says

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An American think tank paper says analysis of DeepSeek developers’ credentials shows “China’s growing capacity to develop world-class AI talent domestically without relying on Western expertise”. Photo: Reuters

China’s daytime laser ranging breakthrough takes moon race to new heights

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China’s Tiandu-1 satellite has taken part in a laser ranging experiment in Earth-moon space under strong daylight conditions, which the satellite’s developer said is a first. Image: CCTV

China’s Shenzhou-19 astronauts return home after forced landing site switch

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Astronaut Wang Haoze emerges from the Shenzhou-19 return capsule at the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia autonomous region on Wednesday. Photo: Xinhua
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China’s Tiandu-1 satellite has taken part in a laser ranging experiment in Earth-moon space under strong daylight conditions, which the satellite’s developer said is a first. Image: CCTV
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China’s daytime laser ranging breakthrough takes moon race to new heights

The test by China’s Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL) expands the limits of the technology and is expected to help achieve future deep space missions.

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US scientists given access to moon rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-5 probe

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Chinese scientists propose a giant telescope on the far side of the moon

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Moon’s magnetic pull lasted much longer than thought: Chinese study

Lunar rocks collected by China’s Chang’e-5 mission reveal new details that may offer key insights into planetary habitability and evolution.

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Samples collected by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar mission have shown that the moon’s magnetic field lasted much longer than previously thought. Photo: Shutterstock
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The English impediment: why Chinese scientists can’t use Chinese

In the world of science, English is the standard language. But could this be limiting talented Chinese academics?

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World first as Chinese sample reveals ‘young’ volcanic activity on moon’s far side

Chinese and US scientists have come up with some surprising results after testing rock samples collected by the Chang’e-6 lunar mission.

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Recap | Musk casts shadow on China’s space ambitions, moon sample swap stalls and more space news

US-China space rivalry, stalled moon sample swap talks, Shenzhou’s pioneering female space flight engineer and more latest China space news.

Negotiations have come to a standstill over an planned exchange of lunar samples from China’s Chang’e-5, pictured on its return to Earth last December, and samples collected by America’s Apollo missions. Photo: Xinhua via AP
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Exclusive | Hopes dim for China and US space agencies to exchange moon samples

Space officials in China and the United States have been discussing a swap but Nasa has not been forthcoming, sources say.

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Will these be the building blocks of China’s base on the moon?

Researchers in Wuhan simulate lunar soil to create what could become the foundations of a space outpost.

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How a Chinese lunar probe and 3 glass beads rewrote the moon’s geological past

New analysis of mission samples reveals volcanoes were still erupting on the moon when dinosaurs walked the Earth.

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Samples brought to Earth by the Chang’e-5 mission are shedding new light on lunar activity. Photo: Xinhua
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Chinese scientists devise method to get water from moon rocks

The technique, developed following a study of samples brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission, could be a key step to building a lunar base.

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Researchers have spent decades searching for water sources on the moon. Photo: Shutterstock
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Chinese team studying moon soil finds first trace of lunar water

Scientists find hydrated mineral ‘enriched’ with molecular water based on soil samples returned by Chang’e-5 mission in 2020.

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Hong Kong

Editorial | Shot at latest moon rocks helps Hong Kong lift off

Hong Kong Polytechnic University hopes to compare lunar soil collected by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from far side with nearside samples of Chang’e-5.

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Hong Kong researchers eye far side of moon soil samples from Chang’e-6 mission

Polytechnic University also says it recently secured loan of lunar soil samples collected by Chang’e-5 mission in 2020.

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The space resources laboratory of PolyU’s Deep Space Exploration Research Centre has set up a lunar soil sample storage and analysis facility. Photo: May Tse
Chang’e-6

Video | What is China’s Chang’e-6 doing on the moon?

China’s Chang’e-6 touches down on far side of moon on mission to bring rock samples back to Earth
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China’s Chang’e-6 lander touches down on far side of moon on rock sample mission

Probe lands on the South Pole-Aitken basin and will start collecting the first samples from this part of the moon.

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China’s Chang’e-6 blasts off to fetch samples from far side of the moon

Chinese spacecraft begins 53-day journey to collect soil and rocks and bring them back to Earth for scientific study.

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Chinese scientists may be a step closer to unravelling mystery of lunar surface

Two new minerals have been identified by researchers analysing moon soil samples collected by the Chang’e 5 mission.

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The minerals were probably formed as a result of intense vaporisation and deposition triggered by the constant, powerful bombardment of micrometeorites from space, the team says in Nature Astronomy. Photo: Chinese National Space Agency Lunar Exploration and Space Engineering Center
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3 Chinese satellites enter lunar orbit, fate of 2 that fell short isn’t clear

Queqiao-2 communication relay satellite arrived 440km above the moon’s surface early on Monday, says CNSA; state media says ‘work is under way to address’ DRO-A/B satellites that failed to reach their designated altitude after March 13 launch.

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Can Chinese scientists solve the mysteries presented by Chang’e 5 moon samples?

Soil samples brought to Earth by Chinese moon mission show unique mineral was likely produced in Aristarchus crater and ejected northward to sample site.

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Video | China launches new communications relay satellite

China launches relay satellite to supplement nation’s lunar ambitions
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China launches relay satellite to allow communication with far side of the moon

Queqiao-2 lifted off atop a Long March 8 rocket at 8.31am on Wednesday, along with smaller satellites Tiandu-1 and 2 that will orbit the moon to test and verify navigation and communications technologies.

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On Wednesday, the Long March 8 Yao-3 rocket carrying the Queqiao-2 relay satellite for the fourth phase of China’s lunar exploration project lifted off at the Wenchang launch site in China. Photo: Xinhua
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Moon miss: Chinese satellites fail to reach planned orbit for lunar test

‘The satellites have not been inserted into their designated orbit, and work is under way to address this problem,’ Chinese state media says.

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Surveillance on the moon? China to take its mass camera network to outer space

Chinese aerospace agencies outline how 600 million-camera Skynet inspires system to watch assets at lunar research station and track foreign visitors arriving on and leaving the moon.

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Beleaguered Peregrine mission could put US behind China in moon race: expert

It may be a good idea to test out propulsion and lander technologies first in space, author and space policy expert at Arizona State University says.

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Peregrine is the first in a string of moon missions, established under the Commercial Lunar Payload Services Programme as a partnership between Nasa and space companies in the US. Photo: AFP
United States

Companies to attempt first US moon landings since Apollo missions

Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are looking to end America’s moon-landing drought and vying for bragging rights as the first private entity to land on the moon.

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American astronaut Eugene A. Cernan stands near the lunar rover on the moon on December, 12 1972. Photo: Nasa / EPA / Handout
China’s military

Removal of China’s defence minister ends Li Shangfu’s stratospheric career

Li, 65, was a stalwart of China’s aerospace programme before appointment as defence minister in March, making global headlines as the country’s first defence minister on a US sanction list.

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Did India land spacecraft near moon’s south pole? Top China scientist says not

Chinese lunar scientist disputes the claim, saying site was within moon’s southern hemisphere but not in the polar region. Others agree, but one notes that landing a rover close the south pole ‘is already a major achievement’.

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