Less than a year ago, four pre-screened, trained mice arrived at China's space station, living in an automatically climate-controlled habitat with Earth-like day-night lighting. Fed custom-formulated ...

During the Apollo missions, scientists discovered rare earth elements in its lunar samples. China and the U.S. are now ...

Two Pakistani astronauts are currently training at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center and will take part in ...

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. SPCX CFO Bret Johnsen said China has an "amazing space program" but still falls far short of matching Starship, arguing SpaceX’s reusable launch system could ...

China's Tianzhou-9 cargo spacecraft officially undocked from the Tiangong space station at 4:34 pm Beijing Time on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. According to CGTN, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) have ...

China launched its first experimental manned spacecraft Shenzhou-1, with no crew onboard, in November 1999. Three more spacecraft were sent into space between 2001 and 2002, before astronaut Yang ...

Humans have been flying missions to the Moon since 1959, when the Soviet Union’s Luna 1 spacecraft passed within several thousand kilometers of the lunar surface. But in all that time, across more ...

This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. Space superiority ...

Dai Zheng walked away from a prestigious career in China’s state aerospace program for an unproven startup in 2016, a ...

Within the past several weeks, China has announced a series of initiatives related to planetary defense. At the end of June, it unveiled plans to establish an asteroid early-warning network for ...

A handful of other countries have their own lunar programs, as does the European Union. Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to ...

Sun Laiyan, head of the China National Space Administration, also defended the cost of the space program, saying Beijing spends far less than the United States, has benefits for ordinary people and is ...