Crowds driving you nuts? Don't have a wave pool nearby? Perhaps an interplanetary surf trip is the call? A Chinese rover on Mars has discovered what appears to be sandy beaches on the Red Planet.

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 ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's fully robotic rover on Mars, in longer-than-expected hibernation since May 2022, likely met with excessive accumulation of sand and dust, its mission designer said, breaking ...

Chinese officials said their Mars rover may have found an ancient beach on the Red Planet. The Zhurong Rover made the discovery in 2021 while exploring Mars’ utopia basin, a region dating back four ...

Just a few days ago, China reported that its lunar rover, Yutu -- named after the mythological Chinese jade rabbit that lives on the Moon -- went gentle into that good night. Now, just a handful of ...

Chinese scientists are developing a unique drone designed to both fly and roll. The dual-mode capability is intended to help ...

A Chinese lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, the national space agency announced on Friday, hailing the development as a "big step for the Chinese people". The Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) ...

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The Chinese space push is in full swing, but the CNSA (Chinese NASA) is nowhere near ready to compete in terms of PR. When Chang'e 3 -- China's first lunar rover -- rolled from its lander this week, ...