In keeping with the principle of proceeding prudently and reliably, and ensuring absolute success, after a comprehensive assessment it has been determined that the Chang’e 7 mission does not meet the conditions for launch and therefore cannot be carried out during the planned launch window this year.

China's space program suffered a major setback Monday when a Long March 7A rocket carrying an unknown payload exploded shortly after launching from the Wenchang Space Launch Site in southern China. Witnesses who observed the launch from the facility explained that they saw "a bright flash of light" which was "followed by what appeared to be

China’s rapidly expanding space program is fueling a new global space race as the United States and other powers compete for technological dominance beyond Earth. Massive rocket launches, lunar missions,

Humans have been flying missions to the Moon since 1959, when the Soviet Union’s Luna 1 spacecraft passed within several thousand kilometers of the lunar surface. But in all that time, across more than 100 successes and failures, no spacecraft has ever landed at the South Pole of the Moon.

State media in China, which is seeking to advance its space program, deemed the result “a major breakthrough in the country’s reusable rocket technology.”

A Chinese rocket set to launch a satellite into orbit blew-up seconds after liftoff Monday, marking the relatively rare failure for a rocket considered the workhorse of Beijing’s space program.

A handful of other countries have their own lunar programs, as does the European Union. Through 2030, governments and private entities have planned more than 400 missions in the next two decades to fly past or circle the moon or to land crewed or uncrewed ...

Within the past several weeks, China has announced a series of initiatives related to planetary defense. At the end of June, it unveiled plans to establish an asteroid early-warning network for planetary defense. A few days ago, China also released further ...

China plans to build space-based data centers as part of its space+ initiative, signaling a major shift in digital infrastructure beyond Earth. China is looking beyond Earth for its next major infrastructure bet. As criticism grows over the environmental ...

On Thursday, Chinese scientist Zhang Qinghe stood before an international audience, presenting a plan to connect observation facilities, data and researchers

Asharq Al Awsat A pioneer of China's aerospace program, Liu Jiyuan, died in Beijing aged 93 after an illness, the main space contractor said on Wednesday.In a career of nearly four decades from 1960,