thesun.co.uk | NASA'S boss has warned that China could try to seize control of the Moon as the space race heats up.
The secretive nation is going to build a research station on the lunar surface as part of huge space plans in the next few years.
And the US appears to be getting nervous about it.
Nasa Administrator Bill Nelson has said we should be cautious about China's ambitions.
Speaking to German paper Bild, he said: "We must be very concerned that China is landing on the Moon and saying: 'It’s ours now and you stay out.'"
China hit back, accusing the Nasa boss of lying "through his teeth".
Escalating tensions come after China has already managed the difficult feat of landing on the far side of the Moon.
The country has also sped up work on a lunar research base by eight years - in collaboration with Russia.
But experts have warned that there's no reason to panic about China's intentions.
Professors Svetla Ben-Itzhak and R. Lincoln Hines say it's unlikely that any country would be able to simply takeover the Moon in the near future.
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