The first phase of China's moon base will be completed around 2035 near the lunar south pole, and an extended model will be built by about 2050, if all goes according to plan.

In the Spring of 2023, China announced plans to start building a moon base by 2028, though it's not clear if that announcement referred to a lunar lava tube base.

A Chinese lunar base could provide China with extensive surveillance capabilities that wouldn’t be easily destroyed in the event of a conflict between the world’s two great powers.

Now, it seems that an underground Chinese moon base might be on the agenda for the future, which could utilize lava tubes as a starting point. Lava tubes are present all over the moon.

A Chinese moon base sounds like the punchline of a bad conspiracy theory. But Yang Mengfei—a member of the China Aerospace and Technology Corporation (CASC)—sees it as an ambitious goal within ...

China wants to start building a lunar base using soil from the moon in five years, Chinese media reported, with the ambitious plan kicking off as soon as this decade.

Chinese researchers are investigating the feasibility of having astronauts shelter in space inside lava tubes on the lunar surface.

Now, with a formal handshake between China and Russia — and China’s history of talking openly about building a base on the Moon — Chinese officials have laid out the mission that will serve ...

Chinese scientists have found a mineral “enriched” with water in lunar soil samples returned from the Moon by the Chang’e 5 mission. This discovery “revealed the presence of trace water ...

A new agreement for Kazakhstan to join Chinese-led plans to build and operate a research base on the moon could set the stage for deepening cooperation between the two countries as Beijing makes ...