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 ...

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

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

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

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.

China's first emergency space launch went ahead without incident on Tuesday, as the country plugged safety risks at its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The idea of beating China back to the moon runs into the fact that the U.S. already did that, on July 20, 1969 during the mission of Apollo 11. On the other hand, that was then, more than 50 years ago ...