China unveils members of state-backed commercial space consortium A Chinese government body has published a national commercial space consortium membership list, offering a rare indication of which companies the state considers established players.

The launch and recovery of the Long March 10B could represent a long-awaited breakthrough for Chinese satellite companies.

China's Tianwen-2 space probe, which is set to bring back samples from an asteroid for research, has reached its target after traveling 1 billion kilometers (620 million miles) over more than a year,

Commercial space ventures in the US and China are tapping broader pools of capital as the superpowers vie for dominance in a fierce space race.

China’s spacecraft, Tianwen-2, has been hunting down its target — a so-called quasi-moon — ever since it launched from Earth in May 2025. Finally, after a 400-day voyage around the solar system, it got within 12 and a half miles of the asteroid’s surface, allowing the spacecraft to take its first detailed photograph.