The committee convened to examine the possibility that China might actually be the first country back to the moon and what ...

This week, US Senate representatives heard testimony on the state of the US-China race for the Moon—and it didn't sound good ...

Trump's fiscal year 2026 (FY 26) budget request cut NASA's budget by a historic 24%, with 47% of funding to agency science ...

On August 6, the China Manned Space Agency successfully tested a high-fidelity mockup of its 26-ton "Lanyue" lunar lander. The test, conducted outside of Beijing, used giant tethers to simulate lunar ...

During a Senate Commerce Committee hearing this week, experts warned that the United States is at risk of having China beat ...

The 10th test of the SpaceX Starship has been launched and by all accounts was wildly successful in meeting its objectives. What do the results tell us about the likelihood that NASA and its ...

When the Chang’e 6 return capsule touched down in the dusty plains of Inner Mongolia in June 2024, it carried something no nation had ever retrieved: the first samples from the far side of the Moon.

Precious moon samples brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 mission in 2020 have finally been shared with international researchers — but the law has made it difficult for U.S.-based scientists ...

President Donald Trump's transportation secretary and interim NASA administrator Sean Duffy is set to announce plans this week to build a nuclear reactor on the moon according to news reports. The ...

NASA has talked about doing its own form of in situ lunar habitation. The Chinese have actually tested the technology—albeit only a rudimentary version. While the United States has placed a former ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...