Experts in North America dispute Chinese developer’s claim for primacy in the breakthrough for space exploration ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

HEFEI -- China's Tiandu 1 satellite has become the first probe to enter a special Earth-moon resonant orbit, scientists ...

Tianwen 2 will deliver pieces of the odd asteroid Kamo'oalewa to Earth in 2027, if all goes to plan. China's latest deep-space mission is underway. The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on ...

HEFEI -- China's Tiandu 1 satellite has become the first probe to enter a special Earth-moon resonant orbit, scientists announced on Tuesday. The spacecraft successfully completed an orbital ...

The Oracle-M spacecraft are specifically designed to track objects in cislunar space, the vast region between Earth and the moon. The U.S. Space Force tested new thrusters designed for satellites ...

Experts agree China is a valid threat to NASA's return to the moon plans. Here's why there is a rush to get SLS off the ...

Chinese scientists ... Laser ranging in Earth-moon space, however, is extremely difficult due to the long distance and rapid movement of spacecraft. It is akin to targeting a single strand of ...

Cosmos 482, the exploratory spacecraft launched toward Venus by the Soviet Union in March 1972, has finally ended its mission. The 50-year-old lander probe returned to Earth early Saturday ...

Kicking off the new year with a bang, China made history in early January by landing the first-ever spacecraft on the far side of the moon ... the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Some of Earth ...