Moon race: How China is challenging the US
Walking on the moon by 2030, building a lunar base, and then perhaps on to Mars: after 30 years of honing its expertise, China is challenging the United States' supremacy in spaceflight.
Walking on the moon by 2030, building a lunar base, and then perhaps on to Mars: after 30 years of honing its expertise, China is challenging the United States' supremacy in spaceflight.
Space Exploration
Mar 26, 2026
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NASA's Artemis 2 lunar mission is set to be the first crewed flyby of the moon in more than half a century, and could launch as soon as April 1.
Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2026
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The four astronauts selected for the Artemis 2 moon mission will be the first to travel there in more than five decades.
Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2026
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Jason Jenkins was driving to work before dawn when a bright green streak beamed across the sky.
Space Exploration
Mar 25, 2026
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Materials scientist Dr. Yige Sun, from the Department of Materials and Linacre College at the University of Oxford, and the Faraday Institution, argues that as space becomes critical infrastructure for the global digital ...
Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2026
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Russia has launched a rocket from Site 31 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome for the first time since it was damaged during a liftoff last November, video from Russia's Roscosmos space agency showed Sunday.
Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2026
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Sixty years after Neil Armstrong barely survived an emergency in orbit around Earth on Gemini 8, never-before-seen photos of his heroic return have been donated to the Ohio museum that bears his name.
Space Exploration
Mar 21, 2026
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For the second time this year, NASA moved its moon rocket from the hangar out toward the pad Friday in hopes of launching four astronauts on a lunar fly-around next month.
Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2026
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The Smile mission is set to launch on a Vega-C rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on Thursday, April 9, at 08:29 CEST/07:29 BST/03:29 local time.
Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2026
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NASA on Thursday began returning its towering SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to its Florida launch pad ahead of a planned flyby of the moon, after completing necessary repairs.
Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2026
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