An academic from the Open University (OU) has been selected as the first UK scientist to carry out research on Moon samples from China's lunar exploration programme.

Prof Mahesh Anand, who is based at the OU's Milton Keynes laboratories, is to receive materials from the Chinese ... sample returns - the last of which was conducted by a Soviet probe in 1976.

NASA's more ambitious and sophisticated Artemis mission, which seeks to return US men to ... and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The construction stage of Wu's "basic model" ...

Professor Carsten Münker at the University of Cologne is among seven international researchers to receive samples of soil and rocks from the Chinese Chang’e-5 mission, which returned to Earth five ...

EL PAÍS visits the hermetic Chinese rocket launch base in the Gobi desert as the race to put people back on the Moon ramps up ...

a rover and a small flying probe designated to fly into pits on the lunar surface to look for ice. Wu Weiren, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief planner of the nation's ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission ... as well as the International Lunar Observatory Association, have been selected to be carried on the Chinese probe. After the Chang'e 7 mission ...

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The different color, density, and particle origins of the lunar ... probe, the launch and recovery system, deep-space tracking and control, and ground applications - showing the spirit of Chinese ...