China lunar mission fuels US misinformation

HONG KONG — An important lunar mission has proven China's growing scientific capability, although the feat has set off a flood of misinformation targeting the United States that researchers said reflects their bitter competition in space.

China is celebrating the return of the Chang'e-6 probe to Earth on Tuesday, bearing rock-and-soil samples from the little-known far side of the Moon, following a 53-day mission that reignited old conspiracy theories about NASA's Apollo Moon landings.