Japan and South Korea are innovation and tech powerhouses. They are home to leading firms in many of the high-tech sectors ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told NPR he sees the U.S. in an urgent race with China to find water on the moon, and that he ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with NASA administrator Bill Nelson about the space agency's plans to return to the moon and travel later to Mars.

China on Friday launched its Chang'e 6 spacecraft to collect and return samples from the moon's mysterious far side — the ...

A Long March-5 rocket, carrying the Chang’e-6 spacecraft, blasted off from its launchpad at the Wenchang Space Launch Site on ...

The U.S. military is likely headed to the moon to counter multiplying threats in space from China and Russia, a key House ...

Chang’e-6 aiming to land on dark side of Earth’s sole satellite, gather samples from an area of critical interest and return ...

Then, in late 2020, the Chang'e-5 mission landed on the near side of the Moon and successfully collected 1.7 kg of rocks.

China on Friday launched an uncrewed spacecraft on a nearly two-month mission to retrieve rocks and soil from the far side of the moon, the first country to make such an ambitious attempt.

If successful, the Chang’e-6 mission will be the first in history to return a sample from a part of the moon that we never get to see from Earth. By Katrina Miller On Friday, China launched a ... It ...

All told, the mission should take roughly 56 days to complete. China’s potential return to the moon marks a significant ...