These advancements in China’s reusable rocket and lunar exploration programs come as NASA prepares to launch a crew of four astronauts on a loop around the far side of the Moon as soon as next month.

China’s space program spent 2025 pushing its launch cadence to new heights, testing reusable rockets at scale and managing the first in-orbit emergency for its astronauts. The result was a year that ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (UPI) --The United States has entered a consequential new era of competition with China in space -- one that lawmakers said will shape global power, economic security and military ...

A brilliant engineer, Qian Xuesen, helped build America's rocket technology. Caught in Cold War politics, he returned to China. There, he became the father of China's aerospace program. His work led ...

Clayton Swope testified before the House Science, Space, & Technology Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics regarding China's rise in space competition and implications for U.S. leadership and ...