The US was the last country to put humans on the moon's surface in 1972, but China is shaping up to edge out NASA to be the ...

Both the United States and China are working to put their astronauts on the moon in the next few years, with NASA's acting administrator claiming that America will win the "race." But what happens if ...

SpaceX has long held the contract to land NASA's Artemis 3 astronauts on the moon a few years from now. But the agency plans ...

China aims to put its astronauts on the moon by 2030. For NASA to get back there first, it needs SpaceX to quickly complete ...

In 2003, China’s first astronaut reported hearing an unexplained “knocking” sound while in space, a noise that eerily resembled someone knocking from outside. Despite more than two decades of ...

For astronauts, dirty laundry has always been a major issue in space. With no washing machines and very limited water, they wear clothes until they can't anymore, then discard them. But, they may soon ...

Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou 20 mission installed additional shielding on Tiangong during a six-hour ...

Quick, name an American who's currently on the International Space Station. (No cheating.) Tough, right? Part of that is due to astronauts not getting much fanfare these days unless they literally put ...

The U.S. and China are in a sprint toward manned missions to the lunar surface by the end of this decade, with sights on 2029 as a common deadline.

JIAYUGUAN, China -- Two years after China became only the third country to launch a human into orbit, a pair of astronauts blasted off Wednesday on a longer, riskier mission after a farewell visit ...

The new selection of NASA astronauts will spend two years in training before becoming eligible for flight assignments.