What does it take to end a nearly four-decade pause in lunar soft landings? In December 2013, China answered with precision ...

Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according to new research. China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating radar detected the ...

China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

China's lunar lander has woken from a freezing fortnight-long hibernation to find night-time temperatures on the moon's dark side are colder than previously thought, the national space agency said ...

China is preparing to rescue three astronauts who took refuge in the Tiangong space station after a suspected space-junk strike on their spacecraft last week, Chinese officials said on Tuesday. In a ...

I'm getting a little of that old Apollo feeling all over again watching the Chinese rover Yutu carefully "step" down the lander ramp and roll onto the moon's surface. The crew at the Beijing Aerospace ...

NASA's Perseverance rover may have uncovered hints of ancient Martian life, but China's Tianwen 3 mission could be the first to deliver samples back to Earth. NASA may have discovered a biosignature ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To prepare for China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, the China Academy of Space Technology built ...

(CNN) — Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according to new research. China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating radar ...