(CBS) — The world’s first artificial moon could be launched by 2020, China Daily reports. China’s space industry is preparing to put an artificial moon into orbit over the city of Chengdu. The fake ...

Interest in putting humans back on the Moon has been making a comeback in recent years. From plans to take us back to the lunar surface, to plans that involve a literal space station orbiting our ...

Earth might gain another Moon, a miniature one, due to a rare phenomenon called gravitational trapping. Carlos de la Fuente Marcos and Raúl de la Fuente Marcos, researchers from Universidad ...

Reports out of China indicate that the nation is looking towards creating its own base on the moon that will rival plans set out by the United States. A new report from the South China Morning Post ...

The researchers say their experiment was inspired by a levitating frog. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Chinese scientists have ...

Getting to the Moon isn’t impossible anymore, but humans have yet to establish a long-term living space on its surface. If we want to become an interplanetary species, however, Japanese researchers ...

A frog, astronaut, and physicist walk into a… low-gravity research facility? Chinese scientists have recently developed an artificial moon setting that will be used to test technology and train ...

Interest in the Moon has been reignited recently, and Japan is looking to get in on the fun. Researchers and engineers from Kyoto University and the Kajima Corporation have released their joint ...

Just when you thought China, the home of innovation and technology, was done, they shock you with something out of this world. The chairman of a private space contractor in Chengdu, China, recently ...

The list of challenges space explorers will face is formidable. They'll have to produce breathable air, clean water, and food in extremely hostile environments lacking all of the above. They'll also ...

Finding our way around the Moon is likely to be a tricky proposition. Unlike Earth, there are no roads, signs, or common landmarks on the lunar surface—at least not yet. Until that happens, we may ...

Chinese scientists have built an "artificial moon" research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity environments using magnetism. The facility, slated for official launch this year, ...