"The underground volcanic lava pipes by the Jingbo Lake are the most similar environment on Earth to the underground space of the moon. I hope our forward-looking research can serve China's lunar ...

China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples. Tianwen 2 launched from Xichang on a Long March 3B rocket on May 28 and is ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

Facing growing challenges from China, the U.S. Space Force was established in 2019 to maintain American superiority in space.

Footage from the Tiangong space station shows Shenzhou 18 crew members — commander Ye Guangfu and cremates Li Cong and Li ...

Scientists from China extracted water from lunar soil and used it to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and chemicals for ...

The impact that carved out the moon's huge South Pole-Aitken basin may explain the puzzling differences between the lunar ...

China's Chang'e 6 is the first craft ever to collect soil and rock samples from the side of the moon that faces away from Earth into space.

China’s space program, whose funding totaled $11 billion in 2017 — compared with $19 billion requested by NASA — has been a source of pride for both the Communist Party and the country’s ...

China’s Chang’e-6 probe returned to Earth on Tuesday carrying the first ever samples from the moon’s unexplored far side, a historic feat for Beijing and boon for the country’s lofty space ...

Last April, a Chinese space station, the Tiangong-1, fell to earth after officials lost communication with it. ... In 2016, two of them spent 30 days in China’s space station.