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

Military dominance of space will almost certainly lead to military dominance on Earth.

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

China's main space contractor vowed to develop space tourism in the next five years, state media reported on Thursday, as Beijing revs up its commercial ...

Humanity is on the cusp of going back to the future. Artemis II, a crewed Nasa mission intended to take astronauts around the ...

JIUQUAN, 31 October (BelTA - Xinhua) - China is holding firm to its goal of landing astronauts on the moon by 2030, and has outlined a packed schedule of development and testing for its ambitious ...

Gateway is a planned outpost in lunar orbit, but can it survive a current re-think of the Nasa-led Artemis programme?

A new race to the moon is underway; not merely to erect flags, but to prospect for and extract water and helium-3, establish nuclear power plants and capitalize on the economic and strategic ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In 2026, astronauts will travel around the Moon for the first time since the Apollo era, powerful new space telescopes will prepare to survey billions of galaxies, and multiple ...

Zhu Junqiang, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and dean of the newly established School of Space ...