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 decade. NASA, which has accelerated its lunar efforts with the Artemis ...

NASA’s Artemis II program is part of a new global space race. This time, world powers have much bigger ambitions.

Nearly half a century after NASA engineers first sketched a machine that could spin massive structures in orbit like a spider ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...