If China plants its flag on the moon while the U.S. continues to fly one-off missions and treat the lunar surface as an occasional destination, it will undermine our standing. The world will see a ...

The new space race is no longer a metaphor. President Donald Trump’s choice to lead NASA, billionaire private astronaut Jared ...

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 ...

Cambridge: Over half a century since humans last set foot on the Moon, China is making significant strides towards sending its astronauts to the lunar surface. On October 30, 2025, a representative ...

In recent weeks, the secretive Chinese space program has reported some significant milestones in developing its program to land astronauts on the lunar surface by the year 2030. On August 6, the China ...

(TNS) — Early in his first term, President Donald Trump held a modest ceremony directing NASA to return humans to the moon for the first time in 50 years. It was a goalpost set without a road map.

Humans last walked on the moon during NASA's Apollo 17 mission in December 1972. This moment is often regarded as the pinnacle of the U.S. space program. Back then, the Apollo–Soviet space race was a ...

"The country that lands on the moon first will shape the rules of engagement in space for decades to come." Both the United States and China are working to put their astronauts on the moon in the next ...

HELSINKI — China conducted a rocket stage hot fire test Friday in the latest step in the country’s plans to land astronauts on the moon. A shortened Long March 10 rocket first stage test article fixed ...

The practice area will provide proving ground for robotic autonomous exploration. China has taken a new step in its long-term planning for lunar exploration with the completion of a "simulated moon ...