HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has selected two proposals to develop spacecraft for low-cost space station resupply missions, echoing earlier moves by NASA. The China Manned Space Engi…

HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has selected two teams to develop prototype rovers for the country’s planned crewed moon mission before the end of the decade. The country last year put …

China on Wednesday launched the Shenzhou-19 manned spaceship, sending a crew of three astronauts int

China has a space station — it’s called Tiangong, the first module was launched in 2021, and it’s all going quite swimmingly, thank you very much. That’s essentially what we…

Researchers in Wuhan simulate lunar soil to create what could become the foundations of a space outpost.

Will the next human to walk on the moon speak English or Mandarin? In all, 12 Americans landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. Now, both the

Observatory research points to extreme cosmic accelerator as source of galactic cosmic rays

What are dark matter and dark energy? The large-scale structure of the cosmos encodes them both, with ESA's Euclid mission leading the way.

To learn about the potential for life in a hidden ocean on Jupiter's moon Europa, NASA will hunt for plumes and "crop circles."

10月15日，中国科学院、国家航天局、中国载人航天工程办公室联合发布《国家空间科学中长期发展规划（2024—2050年）》，明确了我国空间科学发展目标。

Some super-puff exoplanets might be Saturn-like ringed worlds, according to new research.

On Oct. 3, the sun released the most powerful solar flare this solar cycle, a colossal X9.05 eruption.

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects ― the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA telescope, the team monitored the central regions of our Galaxy over more than 13 years. At 500 terabytes of...

A NASA inspector general report gives new details on a leak that has plagued the ISS for five years, and reveals that the agency considers it the highest-level risk.

Researcher’s from NASA recently launched a rocket high into the sky over the Arctic to measure the electrical charge of Earth’s atmosphere.

Galactic Energy launches six satellites with third sea launch China’s Galactic Energy conducted its third Ceres-1 solid rocket sea launch Thursday, successfully sending six satellites into orbit.

Chinese researchers have created a method to produce water on the Moon on a large scale, using the reaction of lunar regolith with endogenous hydrogen.

As results from 2023's Chandrayaan-3 mission suggest south pole Moon magma

A long-awaited study of the cosmic expansion rate suggests that when it comes to the Hubble tension, cosmologists are still missing something.

A spiral galaxy with an ‘active galactic nucleus’ shows off in a new JWST image.

"Whether it's in penguin poop or badger guts, we don't know why bacteria make phosphine, but they do."

Lunar Graphene Chinese scientists have made an unusual discovery while analyzing the sample Chang'e-5 collected from the Moon's surface in December 2020. They found naturally occurring "few-layer graphene" for the first time, as state-run news agency Global Times reports, which could have major impl...

The caves would protect astronauts from meteorite strikes and cosmic radiation.

Chinese scientists propose a 30-satellite network to establish an "information superhighway" between Earth and the moon.

Scientists in China say they have discovered that a type of moss would survive on Mars. Syntrichia caninervis is type of moss usually found in regions such an Antartica or the Mojave desert. But now, scientists has been found that it can survive Mars-like-conditions including drought, high levels ...

China is planning to send an satellite into orbit that will then study and smash to bits a nearby asteroid in a test mission to defend Earth.

In a spiteful retort earlier this week, NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the agency was willing to work with China to examine Moon rocks.

The US enacted a law in 2011 that forbids NASA from cooperating with China, which means it may not be able to study the latest Moon rocks.

China’s space officials said Thursday they welcomed scientists from across the world to apply to study the lunar rock samples the Chang’e 6 probe brought back to Earth in a historic mission, but noted there were limits to that cooperation, specifically with the U.S.

Astronomers concluded it is not the same and that Cassini's spot disappeared in 1708.