china space program

China's Tianwen 1 spacecraft has imaged the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from Mars orbit, contributing to global efforts to study the rare visitor from beyond the solar system.

A NASA official said that China contacted the U.S. space agency recently to coordinate a satellite maneuver, marking the first time the Chinese side had reached out to its American counterpart.

The astronauts of China's three-person Shenzhou 20 mission will wait a little longer before returning to Earth, after a suspected debris impact on their spacecraft.

A Pakistani astronaut will fly to China's Tiangong space station for a short visit, marking the start of international participation in China's human spaceflight program.

Shenzhou 21, China's latest astronaut mission, made it to the Tiangong space station after a Friday (Oct. 31) launch from the Gobi Desert.

China will launch three astronauts toward its Tiangong space station today (Oct. 31), and you can watch the action live.

China unveiled the crew set to launch on the Shenzhou 21 mission to the Tiangong Space Station on Oct. 31, including the youngest member of its astronaut corps.

On Earth, CI chondrites make up only 1% of all meteorites that have been collected, but they may be far more common on the moon.

LandSpace conducted a static-fire test with its Zhuque-3 rocket recently, an important step in the prep work ahead of the partially reusable rocket's debut launch.

A piece of smoldering wreckage found in Western Australia is likely part of a Chinese rocket that crashed to Earth on Saturday (Oct. 18), experts say.