The program would support China's future lunar exploration mission, including providing space-based inter-satellite ...

China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde ...

This image illustrates the three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) in the Earth-moon space. (Technology and Engineering ...

Originally, the hypothesis was that Theia gave the Earth a glancing blow, and the proto-Earth and Theia lost pieces ending up as one or two moons that eventually formed the Moon. It was thought that a ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

In the Earth-moon space, DRO is characterized by a prograde motion around Earth and a retrograde motion around the moon, said Wang Wenbin, a researcher at the CAS' Technology and Engineering ...

Skywatchers around the world turned their heads — and lenses to the skies to capture the beauty of April’s full Pink Moon — ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, making it nearly impossible to capture this whisper. The solution is to go to ...

The next full moon is at 12:56 pm EST on Monday, May 12 and is known as the Flower Moon. Here is a look at all the full moons ...

Thanks to the Moon’s orbit around Earth, the angle of sunlight hitting the lunar surface and being reflected back to our planet changes. That creates different lunar phases. The next Full Moon ...