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China's first ever lunar rover rolled majestically onto the Moon's soil on Sunday, Dec. 15, barely seven hours after the Chang'e-3 mothership touched down atop the lava filled plains of the Bay of Rainbows. Check out the...

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From amazing photos of the "Jade Rabbit" rover basking in Lunar Bay of Rainbows to stunning images of the Geminid meteor shower, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for Dec. 15, 2013.

From amazing images of the Geminid meteor shower to cosmic "tadpoles," don't miss these stunning night sky photos by stargazers and SPACE.com readers.

This video shows the descent and landing of China's Chang'e-3 on the Moon yesterday....

Watch and enjoy this full video of Chang'e 3's descent onto the lunar surface.

China's first robotic moon rover 140-kilogram (300-pound) "Jade Rabbit" rover separated from the much larger landing vehicle early Sunday, around seven hours after the unmanned Chang'e 3 space probe touched down on a fla...

Fresh off of Chinese state television are lovely pictures taken by Chang'e 3 lander and rover of each other!

See amazing photos of the 2013 Geminid meteor shower sent to SPACE.com by stargazers, amateur astronomers and veteran night sky photographers.

Alan Shepard, Neil Armstrong and the space shuttle Atlantis make cameos in the first teaser trailer for 'Interstellar,' the highly-anticipated 2014 science fiction film from director Christopher Nolan. See the video's us...

China's moon rover will survey for minerals on a dusty, barren crater named the Bay of Rainbows, but experts say there may be no pot of gold on the Earth's natural satellite.

China's first moon rover has touched the lunar surface and left deep traces on its loose soil, state media reported Sunday, several hours after the country successfully carried out the world's first soft landing of a spa...

The first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan's largely anticipated space epic "Interstellar" has been released. A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space tra...

Christopher Nolan, the writer and director of Memento, Inception, and the most recent Batman films, is taking up space on the big screen next year — literally. Nolan’s newest film, Interstellar, will be a space explo...

41 years ago today, 14 December 1972, Lunar Module "Challenger" in lunar orbit before rendezvous with the Apollo 17 Command Module "America"....