China and the U.S. are racing to establish a permanent presence on the moon with the explicit mission of mining – and exploiting – lunar resources. April 27, 2026 It’s 2041 and at the Artemis Base ...

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched the Tianwen-2 spacecraft from Xichang spaceport in southwestern China. The probe will attempt to collect samples from asteroid 2016 HO3 and if all goes well ...

For more than half a century, every rock and grain of lunar soil studied in a laboratory on Earth came from the same side of ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover detected more than 20 complex organic molecules in 3.5-billion-year-old clay-bearing rock inside Gale ...

A memo released by the Trump administration on Tuesday detailed a goal of having a nuclear reactor on the moon’s surface by 2030, a move that furthers the United States’ quest for supremacy in space ...

High-performance fiber converted from lunar soil samples is on display at the National Museum of China, on April 1, 2025.

BEIJING, April 22 (Reuters) - China has selected two Pakistani ‌astronauts as candidates for its manned space programme, state broadcaster ⁠CCTV reported on Wednesday. Both will travel to China for ...

On Tuesday, May 5, SpaceX will open the week with the Starlink Group 17-29 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 10:00 p.m. EDT. The Falcon 9 will deliver a batch of Starlink ...

Jim Bridenstine, former NASA Administrator and managing partner at the Artemis Group, has expressed concerns about the U.S.' ability to outpace China in the race to return astronauts to the Moon. In ...

Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin experienced a significant setback over the weekend. During its third launch, the company’s New Glenn rocket failed to deliver its payload, a communication ...

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