Donald Trump is backing a $20bn (£15bn) mission to build a base on the surface of the Moon – and perhaps beat China to it ...

NASA is under enormous pressure to return astronauts to the Moon before China achieves its first crewed landing, but experts question whether the Artemis program can overcome delays, technical hurdles ...

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In an on-going overhaul of NASA's Artemis program, agency officials say it will take seven years to build a sophisticated ...

China’s program to put astronauts on the lunar surface by 2030 has moved from aspiration to engineering reality, with ...

The vicinity of Shackleton is where astronauts from the U.S. and, quite likely, taikonauts from China (from the Chinese word ...

A new study highlights the volcanic Rimae Bode region as a scientifically promising destination for China's first crewed moon landing mission, which the nation wants to achieve by 2030.

On March 9, 2026, a new report highlighted a little-known stretch of the Moon that has started to draw unusual attention inside China’s lunar planning. The study focused on a region near the lunar ...

In the U.S.- and China-led race to put astronauts back on the moon, there is, in fact, one overlapping goal: establishing a ...

Rimae Bode—a volcanic region on the Moon’s nearside—offers strategic advantages for a human landing as well as rich opportunities for scientific research, according to a new study. Reading time 3 ...

The agency’s leader said new plans and timelines for the coming decade aim to create a permanent foothold by humans on ...