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China is melding its robotic Chang'e lunar probe activities with the country's human spaceflight program in an effort to land ...

Something remarkable happened on April 1, 2026 - and no, it was not a joke. Four astronauts lifted off from Kennedy Space Center aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, bound for the Moon, making it the first ...

NASA is at an inflection point. 2026 will now begin with a newly-confirmed Jared Isaacman as a NASA Administrator with the White House directive to beat China back to the moon with astronauts. On the ...

China's Tianzhou-10 mission just delivered embryo-like structures made from living stem cells to the Tiangong space station.

For the first time in more than 50 years, humans are heading back toward the Moon—and this time, history is coming with them. Victor Glover is set to become the first Black astronaut—and the first ...

Humanity is entering one of the most active eras of space missions ever recorded. From deep-space probes studying ancient cosmic history to robotic explorers targeting moons, asteroids, and Mars, 2025 ...