China’s latest lunar mission has quietly redrawn the map of space power. By bringing home the first rocks ever collected from ...

China set for crewed lunar tests, record launches, moon mission and reusable rockets in 2026 China appears set to accelerate its launch rate this year while also conducting tests key to its crewed ...

China's next robotic moon mission is scheduled to launch later this year, helping set the stage for the nation's planned multi-phased lunar outpost. The Chang'e 7 mission is on tap to reconnoiter the ...

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

Aug 7 (Reuters) - China conducted its first test on Wednesday of a lunar lander that it hopes will put the first Chinese on the moon before 2030, the country's manned space program said. The lander's ...

More than 50 years after the last time humans walked on the moon, China is working steadily toward landing its astronauts on the lunar surface. Among legislators and senior figures in the US space ...

China recently conducted a test of a lunar lander, marking a turning point in the country’s space ambitions. The experiment is a central part of efforts to land astronauts on the moon by the end of ...

Using just 3.5 grams of lunar soil collected from the far side of the Moon, Chinese researchers have precisely dated the formation of the Apollo basin — one of the far side’s largest craters — to 4.16 ...

The Artemis II mission will merely orbit the moon and return—but it helps lay the groundwork for an eventually permanent return to its surface.

Jessie Osborne does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Coming from one of the world's largest astrophysical research institutes, I can tell you, the anticipation across the global space science community is electric.

One keynote speaker, Kavya Manyapu, said her first lunar exploration project was done through her Ph.D. at UND. Now, she is working to bring people back to the moon. Kavya Manyapu, lead of development ...