China’s astronauts complete cave training amid preparations for moon missions China’s astronaut corps has completed a near ...

A Long March 4B lifts off carrying the Ziyuan-3 (04) remote sensing satellite, Dec. 16 (UTC), 2025, climbing above the snow-dusted hills surrounding Taiyuan spaceport. Credit: CASC HELSINKI — China ...

China carried out a record 92 space launches in 2025, with multiple breakthroughs and a number of firsts across manned ...

China is rounding off what has been a year of big progress in space, including major crewed lunar landing tests, new rockets and booster landing attempts, a new deep space mission and even ...

China conducted a total of 93 space launches in 2025, setting a new national record for orbital launches in a single year.

Last year delivered doses of drama and excitement in the space business, with a record number of launches, breathtaking ...

The country moved from investing only a few hundred million dollars annually at the start of the century to around $19 ...

An aerial drone photo taken on Nov. 14, 2025 shows law enforcers of the China Coast Guard (CCG) vessel Huangyan conducting a ...

Given the mounting number of objects in orbit, this is likely to be a more regular occurrence. It's costly in terms of damage to equipment, and increasingly a threat to life. When a piece of debris ...

After NASA astronaut Sunita Williams' Starliner space saga kept many in suspense for months, three Chinese astronauts — part of Shenzhou-21 crew – have now been stranded in space. To rescue them, ...

On Dec. 16, 1962, NASA launched the Explorer 16 spacecraft to study micrometeoroids near Earth. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] The mission would determine how likely it would be ...