China landed a probe on the far side of the moon last Thursday with remarkably little fanfare, yet the feat is one giant leap for a nation that’s long been regarded as an also-ran in the space race.
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China has set the Chang’e 4 lander and rover down on the far side of the moon using a downward-looking camera and hazard avoidance software as it slowed its descent using retrorockets.
The first high-resolution images of a 34km tall snowman-shaped object that lies a billion miles beyond Pluto have been released by Nasa.
A Chinese spacecraft has made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon in the latest achievement for the country’s growing space programme.
Nasa’s New Horizons spacecraft has survived humanity’s most distant exploration of another world.
South Africa has successfully launched into space the continent’s most advanced nanosatellite to date, the ZACube-2.
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Nasa’s new Mars lander has placed a quake monitor on the planet’s dusty red surface. The milestone occurred less than a month after Mars InSight’s touchdown.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic has successfully launched a tourism rocket plane into space for the first time.
Nasa’s Voyager 2 has become only the second human-made object to reach the space between stars. Nasa said on Monday that Voyager 2 exited the region of the sun’s influence last month.