As of spring 2026, China has named the two spacecraft that will carry its astronauts to the moon, advanced a competitive design process for a crewed lunar rover, and continued building a heavy-lift ...

China and the U.S. are racing to establish a permanent presence on the moon with the explicit mission of mining – and ...

Slow and steady wins the race, or so goes the fable. The China Manned Space Agency, or CMSA, has repeatedly denied any rivalry with the United States akin to the race to the moon in the 1960s. But ...

A Chinese space firm is booking passengers for its suborbital tourism flights and has now signed up a celebrity for an early flight. Commercial company InterstellOr unveiled a full-scale experimental ...

A visiting US military leader warns China is “moving out like a world-class sprinter” in space, a development with huge ...

China’s growth trajectory overall and more particularly in the space domain has been impressive. However, John Hickman’s categorical assertions in a recent ...

A handful of other countries have their own lunar programs, as does the European Union. Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to ...

Two Chinese astronauts boarded the Tiangong 2 space laboratory on Tuesday after their spacecraft docked successfully during a two-hour automated procedure. This latest step in the Chinese space ...

China has launched its first round-trip mission to the moon with a robotic spacecraft, a mission that will pave the way for the country's planned lunar sample-return program. An advanced Long March 3C ...

China on Wednesday announced that it has selected two Pakistani astronauts for a space programme scheduled for later this ...

The selection of the first group of foreign astronauts for the China's manned spaceflight program was completed with two ...