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’s space program has expanded at a remarkable pace, developing its own space station, lunar landers, Mars missions, and ...

Beijing aims to send astronauts to the Moon before 2030 and establish a base there in cooperation with Russia within the next decade. NASA, which has accelerated its lunar efforts with the Artemis ...

NASA's Artemis program has drawn attention for its plan to send astronauts around the moon. But behind that mission is a broader strategic push: a renewed race between the United States and China to ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...