As of spring 2026, China has named the two spacecraft that will carry its astronauts to the moon, advanced a competitive design process for a crewed lunar rover, and continued building a heavy-lift ...

China and the U.S. are racing to establish a permanent presence on the moon with the explicit mission of mining – and ...

Slow and steady wins the race, or so goes the fable. The China Manned Space Agency, or CMSA, has repeatedly denied any rivalry with the United States akin to the race to the moon in the 1960s. But ...

A visiting US military leader warns China is “moving out like a world-class sprinter” in space, a development with huge ...

A Chinese space firm is booking passengers for its suborbital tourism flights and has now signed up a celebrity for an early flight. Commercial company InterstellOr unveiled a full-scale experimental ...

China on Wednesday announced that it has selected two Pakistani astronauts for a space programme scheduled for later this ...

Two Chinese astronauts boarded the Tiangong 2 space laboratory on Tuesday after their spacecraft docked successfully during a two-hour automated procedure. This latest step in the Chinese space ...

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 ...

In 2025, China set a national record for orbital launches in a single year with over 90 launches. Chinese investment in its commercial space sector, including from private and government sources, ...

The selection of the first group of foreign astronauts for the China's manned spaceflight program was completed with two ...