These advancements in China’s reusable rocket and lunar exploration programs come as NASA prepares to launch a crew of four astronauts on a loop around the far side of the Moon as soon as next month.

China has just notched a space achievement that quietly shifts the balance of exploration. By bringing back the first rocks ...

SpaceX's Starship, the world's largest rocket, is intended to transport NASA astronauts to the moon and eventually humans to Mars. Multiple Chinese companies and the country's state space program have ...

China plans to build space-based data centers as part of its space+ initiative, signaling a major shift in digital infrastructure beyond Earth.

China has successfully launched its fourth reusable spacecraft mission since the program in 2020.

China on Wednesday successfully conducted a low-altitude demonstration and verification flight test of its Long March-10 carrier rocket and a maximum dynamic pressure abort flight test of its ...

China has launched a reusable experimental spacecraft, completing the fourth publicly known mission in its recoverable spaceflight program.

BEIJING (AP) — The stranded crew of a Chinese space mission is “in good condition, working and living normally,” China’s Manned Space Engineering office said on Tuesday. The three astronauts on the ...

BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation's space station Friday after more than a week's delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from ...

China has launched its first round-trip mission to the moon with a robotic spacecraft, a mission that will pave the way for the country's planned lunar sample-return program. An advanced Long March 3C ...

NASA's Artemis II crewed mission to the moon shows how U.S. space strategy has changed since Apollo -- and contrasts with China's closed program.