China's Chang'e-6 mission landed on the moon’s South Pole-Aitken Basin, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television ...

In space nobody can hear you scream. But here on Earth, legions of voices are being raised in anguish as China takes a disturbing lead in the second space race to put astronauts back on the moon and ...

For the last month, NASA's interim administrator, Sean Duffy, has been giving interviews and speeches around the world, offering a singular message: "We are going to beat the Chinese to the Moon." ...

NASA on Tuesday said it was on track to send astronauts to orbit the moon in early 2026, as the United States races China to return to the lunar surface. Multiple setbacks have delayed the manned ...

SYDNEY — China is preparing a series of tests and launches in the final quarter of 2025 crucial to its crewed moon program and commercial rocket plans. The country’s ambition to land astronauts on the ...

"The exploration of the moon is going to be a continuous activity." SYDNEY — Leaders of the world's major space agencies shared visions for space in the coming years at a major space congress in ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The moon is getting 1½ inches (3.8 centimeters) ...

KITE & KEY MEDIA: The world is entering its second age of exploration, this one in outer space. But there’s one big question: Will America get left behind? In the 21st century, America has seen ...

HOUSTON—A high-stakes race to the moon is on, and NASA doesn’t want to lose. U.S. government officials and astronauts at the Johnson Space Center this week touted their commitment to accelerating ...

While the United States is mired in one Donald Trump controversy after another, much of the rest of the industrialized world is steadily moving into the future. Other nations can’t ignore America, but ...

Mr. Li is the director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute. President Xi Jinping of China has long taken pleasure in poking fun at the West’s short political attention span ...

The race to build the world’s first functional humanoid robots is no longer just a contest of hardware. It’s a high-stakes battle over two radically different philosophies of development, the crux of ...