A Long March-8A carrier rocket carrying the 28th group of low-orbit internet satellites blasts off from the Hainan commercial ...

China’s advances in reusable rocket technology are narrowing the U.S. lead in launch capabilities and intensifying competition across the global space industry. As China develops a lower-cost launch ...

As China has more than tripled its space launches, satellites that can function as weapons pose a big security risk, ...

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has released the public’s best look yet at Shenlong, China’s ultra-secret space plane.

Footage released Sunday by the China Manned Space Agency captures astronauts conducting research and daily work aboard ...

May 30, 2025 marks the ninth National Science and Technology Workers Day. In the early morning of the previous day, Tianwen-2, the country's first asteroid probe and sampling mission, soared into the ...

China aims to break space technology choke points with thousands of experiments on the Tiangong space station over the next decade or so as it expands its crewed exploration programme. The China ...

An image published by the DIA shows the Chinese space plane, called Shenlong, attached to an unidentified satellite.

Chinese and American labs are competing to see who will be the first to deploy a supercomputer that powers AI systems from space. Starlink, Blue Origin, Google, and startup Starcloud are all upgrading ...

A microwave transmission system test related to space-based solar power. Credit: CAST HELSINKI — China is planning solar power generation and transmission tests at different orbital altitudes over the ...

Reusable spaceplanes offer several advantages over conventional satellites and spacecraft.

Developments in space technology are serving Antarctic scientists well. Starlink, European relay satellites and China’s growing suite of ocean-observation satellites, among others, are boosting ...