The country moved from investing only a few hundred million dollars annually at the start of the century to around $19 ...

As Jonathan Roll neared completion of a master’s degree in science and technology policy at Arizona State University three years ago, he did some research into recent developments by China’s ascendant ...

China’s space program spent 2025 pushing its launch cadence to new heights, testing reusable rockets at scale and managing ...

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 ...

A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Thursday with the first fresh rock samples from the moon in more than 40 years, offering the possibility of new insights into the history of the solar ...

Nov. 25 (UPI) --China's uncrewed Shenzhou-22 space vessel arrived at the Tiangong space station on Tuesday morning, avoiding the potential stranding of three Chinese astronauts on the orbiting space ...

BEIJING, China -- China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control Tiangong 1 space station is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere sometime this weekend. It poses only a slight risk to people and ...

Some observers see the Kazakh-Chinese initiative as a tacit vote of no-confidence in a more than two-decade-long ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...

Three veteran Chinese astronauts are stuck – for now – aboard the Tiangong space station after their return capsule was hit and damaged by space debris fragments. China's space agency has not revealed ...

Tiny chunks of space debris are believed to have struck the return vehicle of a Chinese crew of astronauts who were due to return to Earth following a mission at the nation's Tiangong space station.