The results will be worth the effort and the cost, not just in understanding the world around us in general but also in ...

"To decide not to return them, or to put it off to an indefinite future time with human missions would be to take a major ...

Chinese control of the moon would put the United States in grave danger. Richard Fisher of the International Assessment and Strategy Center pointed out to me that Chinese control of the moon would ...

A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036 ...

After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock ...

China has also begun emplacement of the lunar ... requirements for precursor knowledge and testing for a robotic Mars return mission. They do not mention the toxicity of the Martian surface ...

China's previous crewed mission, Shenzhou-19 ... the third to put humans in orbit and has also landed robotic rovers on Mars and the moon. The jewel in the crown is Tiangong, the space station ...

JIUQUAN, China—China was making final preparations ... possible crewed mission to the Moon and exploration of Mars. The Shenzhou 20 mission is scheduled to blast off Thursday evening from ...

NASA is considering launching missions to Mars as early as next year in an effort to expedite its plan to land astronauts on ...

A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China on 24 ...