China lands a rover on the far side of the moon 08:20. A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return to Earth, the ...

More than a half-century after US astronauts first planted the Stars and Stripes on the moon, China replicated the feat — though unmanned — by unfurling its red flag on the lunar surface.

China's national space agency has released the latest images beamed back to Earth by its pioneering Mars rover Zhurong, following the conclusion of its first mission on the Red Planet this week ...

Dec. 4 (UPI) --China's Chang'e-5 lander departed the moon after spending two days on the surface, leaving behind its first official flag. China brought two flags on previous missions, but the one ...

China's earlier lunar surface vehicles, the Chang'e 3 and Chang'e 4 lander-rover duos, sported flags that were painted on. Chang'e 5 broke ground by carrying a real fabric flag to the moon's surface.

China has planted a flag on the moon, the BBC reported, citing state-run media, ... The U.S. was the first country to plant a flag on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

China's national flag was seen on the Moon during its first lunar landing mission, Chang'e-3 in photographs taken by the lander and rover of each other. The Chang'e-4 lander and rover brought the ...

Now, over half a century later, we will soon finally get the first actually waving flag on the Moon. In 2026, China intends to send the Chang'e-7 mission to the lunar south pole.Onboard this ...

China launched 300 flags for an international group aboard its Tiangong 1 space lab on Sept. 29. The International Astronautical Federation flags have flown on U.S. and Russian spacecraft.