Aug 7 (Reuters) - China conducted its first test on Wednesday of a lunar lander that it hopes will put the first Chinese on the moon before 2030, the country's manned space program said. The lander's ...

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 ...

The 10th test of the SpaceX Starship has been launched and by all accounts was wildly successful in meeting its objectives. What do the results tell us about the likelihood that NASA and its ...

"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 ...

JIUQUAN, China (AP) — China said Thursday it's on track to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 as it introduced the next crew of astronauts who will head to its space station as part of the country's ...

As SpaceX’s Starship rocket thundered into the South Texas sky this week, a crowd of employees outside mission control began to chant, “U-S-A, U-S-A!” It was the second successful test flight after a ...

China is going full throttle in its quest to land astronauts on the moon by 2030. That was clearly evident in an Aug. 15 ground test of the first-stage propulsion system of the Long March 10 (CZ-10), ...

Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly loud and frequent, emanating from bipartisan lawmakers and science advocates alike. But ...

Why NASA administrator Sean Duffy’s atomic directives are not that outlandish. This week NASA administrator Sean Duffy declared the Trump Administration's intention to land a working nuclear fission ...

Former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine testifies about NASA’s plans to return humans to the moon at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing Sept. 3. Credit: Senate Commerce Committee livestream ...

China announced a major breakthrough in its planned moon landing mission as the East Asian power and the United States race to send humans back to Earth's natural satellite. NASA told Newsweek that ...