More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the moon, China is working steadily toward landing its astronauts on the lunar surface.

In a surprising twist to our understanding of the moon’s chemical stability, a Chinese mission has unearthed evidence of rust ...

Scientists from Chinese Academy of Sciences report soil's stickiness stems from combination of extremely fine particles and ...

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Yet, the ...

As the International Space Station nears retirement, a bipartisan senatorial group proposed a National Institute for Space ...

Shenzhou 21 successfully landed with its three occupants on November 14, but that still left three astronauts on the Tiangong ...

When the Chang’e 6 return capsule touched down in the dusty plains of Inner Mongolia in June 2024, it carried something no nation had ever retrieved: the first samples from the far side of the Moon.

The country is hoping the next boots on the lunar surface will be those of a taikonaut, not an astronaut. China is advancing the development of the technology it needs to try to beat NASA back to the ...

A Chinese space crew is stranded at the country’s Tiangong space station after tiny pieces of space debris were believed to have struck their return capsule, China’s spaceflight agency said Wednesday.

This study, based on samples for the first time, shows that highly oxidized minerals like hematite can exist on the Moon.