China set to unveil long-term vision for space science The Chinese Academy of Sciences is aiming to accelerate its progress ...

A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane has landed back on Earth ...

The country’s Tianwen-3 mission would carry out two launches “around 2028” to retrieve the Martian samples, chief mission ...

While China's space program has matched NASA with multiple landings on the moon and Mars, it hasn't kept pace by developing ...

Its latest mission includes tests operating in new regions of orbit ... from the Shenlong space plane. Observers also note that China is likely using the US program as a benchmark for its own.

The U.S. space agency announced in April that it was seeking new, innovative ways to ... be a significant accomplishment for China’s ambitious space program and leader Xi Jinping’s stated ...