the system will weigh about 80 tonnes and will require China’s super heavy-lift rocket to transport it to the moon. The team ...

China will select taikonauts for its first-ever manned moon landing mission from the current pool that has participated in ...

the moon goddess. That dream materialized in 2004 with the launch of the “Chang’e Project,” China’s lunar exploration initiative. In 2007, the first Chinese lunar probe, Chang’e-1 ...

The future of energy is getting even more interesting with three countries—China, Russia and India—teaming up to reach the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. China started off 2019 by completing the first soft landing on the far side Earth’s moon.

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

China is set to build a lunar base at the moon's south pole by 2035, with the project rolling out in two phases. The first phase will conclude by 2035, while a more comprehensive model is expected ...

The agency said in a news release on Monday that key components of the ambitious project ... China's manned lunar program will make the country the second nation to land astronauts on the moon ...

For the first time in history, a space mission has touched down on the far side of the moon. China's Chang'e-4 probe landed in the the oldest and deepest basin on the moon's surface. Making the ...

Yet Starship is not ready to fly to the Moon, and is even further from carrying crew. Waiting for Starship to be ready could jeopardise US ambitions to beat China in sending humans back to the Moon.

These shiny, multicolored glass beads were in samples returned from the moon by China in 2020. The beads range in size from the width of one hair to several hairs; the water content was just a ...