China’s space program has made remarkable strides—from launching a Mars rover to building a national space station - but it ...

China's human spaceflight agency just conducted a crucial pad abort test for its Mengzhou spacecraft as it continues toward ...

RUWITCH: The space program is a huge point of pride for China and much more. In this propaganda clip from early 2013, Chinese leader XI Jinping, who had just taken office, describes how he sees ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

When Chang'e-3 became the first Chinese craft to land on the moon 10 years ago, it kicked off nationwide celebrations—and a decade of major successes for a rapidly accelerating space program.

The Pentagon is concerned that China’s growing network of facilities in Latin America and Antarctica for its civilian space programs has defense capabilities.

Credit: Depositphotos As we come to the end of 2023, it is an apt time to revisit China’s priorities for its space program. In President Xi Jinping’s speech at the 20th Party Congress in ...

It remains to be seen whether China's space program is in line with "scientific principles," as the country's civil and military space are co-mingled within the same government organizations.

Officials with the Chinese Manned Space Agency said in a news conference on Monday that the program plans to place astronauts on the moon before 2030 and expand its space station.

It is that last part of China’s space remit that is turning the most heads in the West—particularly its planned flights to the moon. On March 24, the Queqiao-2 satellite entered lunar orbit ...

China built its own space station after being excluded from the International Space Station, largely due to the United States’ concerns over the program’s complete control by the People’s ...

China has launched its Tianwen-2 mission, dispatching a spacecraft to gather samples from an asteroid near to Mars. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) anticipates that this mission will ...