China's space program has been advancing rapidly. In 2021, it launched its permanently crewed alternative to the ...

The lunar lander, called Blue Ghost, settled onto the Moon's surface at 2:34 am CST (3:34 am EST; 08:34 UTC). A few dozen ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Intuitive Machines sent final commands to its uncrewed Athena spacecraft on Thursday as it closed in ...

China will continue to advance two major missions - the application and development of the China Space Station and ...

China, meanwhile, is making swift progress in its own moon ... and we just have proof it works," said NASA's CLPS chief Chris ...

"You all stuck the landing. We’re on the moon," Firefly’s Will Coogan ... as only five countries — Russia, the U.S., China, India and Japan — have been successful. Blue Ghost, which ...

Once realized, China's manned lunar program will make the country the second nation to land astronauts on the moon, significantly boosting its global space standing. The United States successfully ...

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. Last year, a spacecraft built by Intuitive ...

Firefly Aerospace’s robotic vehicle became the second privately built spacecraft to make a soft landing on the moon. It could soon be joined by two more private lunar landers.

NASA's private Moon fleet Landing on the Moon presents unique challenges ... the United States, China, India and Japan, in that order. Now, the United States is working to make private lunar ...

China is moving ahead with its goal of a manned lunar landing before the end of the decade while planning new missions to its Tiangong space station this year.