China is preparing to launch near-Earth asteroid probe Tianwen-2 at the end of May, state-run CCTV reported on Sunday, in the country's first mission to collect samples from interplanetary space.

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the ...

The mission team knows Lunar Trailblazer's precise position thanks to ground-based tracking, NASA officials said the update.

An academic from the Open University (OU) has been selected as the first UK scientist to carry out research on Moon samples from China's lunar exploration programme.

While a lunar ... Chinese Lunar Exploration Project, said last year that a “basic model” of the ILRS, with the Moon's south pole as its core, would be built by 2035. The Chang’e lunar probe ...

and achieved a new national record for the longest spacewalk by Chinese astronauts. Their return marks the official completion of the Shenzhou-19 mission and comes shortly after the successful ...

The Chinese agency had received requests to borrow the moon rocks from 11 nations, Mr Shan said. “China’s lunar exploration programme has always adhered to the principles of equality ...

Preliminary plans for the China and Russia-led international lunar research station (ILRS) include building a nuclear reactor on the moon’s surface, a presentation by a Chinese space official on ...

NASA's more ambitious and sophisticated Artemis mission, which seeks to return US men to ... and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. The construction stage of Wu's "basic model" ...

China Lunar Chief ... with "China or any Chinese-owned company unless such activities are specifically authorised." While ESA sent a payload aboard China's latest lunar probe, the Chang'e-6 ...

Prof Mahesh Anand, who is based at the OU's Milton Keynes laboratories, is to receive materials from the Chinese ... sample returns - the last of which was conducted by a Soviet probe in 1976.