China is moving ahead with its goal of a manned lunar landing before the end of the decade while planning new missions to its Tiangong space station this year. Newsweek reached out to the Chinese ...

Parts of China’s space strategy might not seem directly tied to defense: plans for a joint Chinese-Russian lunar facility, a permanently-crewed space station or a burgeoning quasi-commercial ...

With microgravity and cosmic radiation, the unique environment in space poses risks to human health and also vast opportunities for medical and scientific research breakthroughs, experts said.

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With the drama around the first human spaceflight of the year behind it, SpaceX is back to the business of sending private customers to space. The Fram2 mission headed by a Chinese-born ...

After zebrafish and fruit flies, China's Tiangong space station is set to host a new life form — planarians, according to Chinese scientists. Zhang Wei, director of the Technology and ...

Pakistan and China have reached an agreement to promote space cooperation and train first Pakistani astronaut on space flight to Chinese Space Station. An agreement to this effect was signed in ...

BEIJING--China launched a new three-person crew for its orbiting space station on Tuesday, with an eye to putting astronauts on the moon before the end of the decade. The Shenzhou 16 spacecraft ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.