China has fired a precision laser across 80,778 miles (130,000 km) of space in broad daylight, bounced it off a satellite ...

Over time, it cooled and clumped into a single massive body—the moon. That impact didn’t just create a satellite; it helped define Earth’s structure, tilt, and rotation. Clues about this ...

In a major leap for lunar navigation, China has successfully bounced alaser off a Moon-orbiting satellite in full daylight—a ...

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...

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

The internet has been abuzz with the possibility of sky watchers seeing a “smiley face” in the eastern sky above the horizon ...

“The moon’s orbit around the Earth is not perfect; it’s elliptical, or egg shaped. So, there are points throughout the year when it’s closer to the Earth and points when it’s farther ...

KUNMING -- Chinese scientists have achieved satellite laser ranging in the Earth-moon space in daytime for the first time in ...