Beijing: China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, the Xinhua state news agency reported.

Africa’s first continent-wide space agency, the African Space Agency (AfSA), which was inaugurated in April, is looking to secure funding as its first projects get under way. AfSA is an ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Nigerian space scientist Temidayo Oniosun about how the new African Space Agency could help make the continent more resilient to climate change and extreme weather.

China's main space agency, the China National Space Administration (CNSA), did not respond to a request for comment. In response to a question from a Reuters reporter at a media briefing in ...

China’s human spaceflight agency, CMSEO, has contracted the development of low-cost cargo spacecraft to serve the Tiangong space station, using launch vehicles from private firm Landspace and a ...

Five years after its formation during President Donald Trump’s first administration prompted jokes about the Star Trek-style logo and inspired a Netflix Inc. sitcom with Steve Carell, the US Space ...

A newly discovered species of bacteria has been found living aboard China’s Tiangong space station, and scientists say it may be uniquely adapted to survive the extreme conditions of space.

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Experts tell Euronews Next that if the US Congress passes the proposed NASA budget cuts, the EU-US relationship will never be ...

Ramses mission systems engineer at the European Space Agency (ESA), told SpaceNews. While China has conducted two lunar sample return missions, including the moon’s far side, approaching and ...

When it came to illuminate their new firefly brand, Chinese manufacturer NIO turned to London-based creative studio forpeople ...

The Chang'e-4 probe is the latest mission sent to the moon by CNSA, the Chinese space agency. The first two lunar missions were orbiters, and the third was a lander-rover combo that successfully ...