As of spring 2026, China has named the two spacecraft that will carry its astronauts to the moon, advanced a competitive ...

Beijing aims to send astronauts to the Moon before 2030 and establish a base there in cooperation with Russia within the next ...

China is working toward its own moon landing. Could it put astronauts on the moon before NASA’s Artemis program does?

China’s space program has expanded at a pace few expected, moving from basic launches to space stations, Moon missions, and deep-space exploration in just a few decades. With long-term planning, heavy ...

NASA's Artemis program has drawn attention for its plan to send astronauts around the moon. But behind that mission is a ...

The United States and China are leading a global competition to build a permanent presence on the moon. Scientific research, ...

The probe for China's Chang'e-7 lunar mission has been safely transported to the Wenchang Space Launch Site in South China's Hainan Province as of the evening of April 9, 2026. Ph ...

Humanity first reached the moon in 1969. We went back a few times, then lost interest within three short years, and we ...

China saw its first woman to ever walk in space when she worked on the Chinese space station Tianhe on Nov. 7. China Manned Space Engineering Network posted video to Weibo showing Wang Yaping leaving ...

BEIJING (AP) — China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China’s space station.

Over the first quarter of the 21st century, two major trends have transformed the global space industry. The first is the rapid rise of China’s space program, which only flew its first human to orbit ...