Trump is downsizing NASA and handing over the space race to ChinaAmerica's space agency NASA faces a major staff reduction. Over two thousand senior employees are leaving. Budget cuts threaten key mission...
China launches spacecraft, says it will return samples and yield 'groundbreaking discoveries'China has launched its Tianwen-2 probe, aiming to collect samples from asteroid 2016HO3 near Mars and explore comet 311P. This mission, acc...
China launches mission to retrieve asteroid samplesChina has launched its Tianwen-2 spacecraft. The mission aims to collect samples from a nearby asteroid. The Long March 3B rocket carried t...
China goes to asteroid, launches Tianwen-2 spacecraft to collect samplesTianwen-2 is more than just a scientific sleuth. It is also a technological steppingstone for China's ambitious Tianwen-3 mission.
Did Mars have sandy beaches? New study reveals clues of a lost ocean and suggests the planet was once warm and wetNew findings provide evidence that Mars may have had a vast ocean around 3.5 to 4 billion years ago. During this period, the planet had a t...
China calls on scientists of all nations to study lunar samples, but notes obstacle with the USChina's space officials announced that scientists worldwide could apply to study lunar rock samples from the Chang'e 6 mission. Cooperation...
China's Zhurong Rover says Mars had water traces more recently than everThousands of millions of years more recently than previously believed, Mars may have had liquid water, according to China's Zhurong Rover. ...
China says lunar samples offer new clues to volcanic activityChina in December brought back the first rocks from the moon since missions by the U.S. and former Soviet Union in the 1970s. On Saturday, ...
Rocket in place to send 3 crew to Chinese space stationThe space agency plans a total of 11 launches through the end of next year to deliver two laboratory modules to expand the 70-ton station, ...
Official: Chinese astronauts go to space station next monthThe Tianhe, or Heavenly Harmony, is the third and largest space station launched by China's increasingly ambitious space programme. Its cor...
China names Mars rover after traditional fire godThe rover is aboard the Tianwen-1 probe that arrived in Mars orbit on Feb. 24 and is due to land in May to look for evidence of life. It is...
China's Mars craft enters parking orbit before landing roverThe China National Space Administration said the spacecraft executed a maneuver to adjust its orbit early Wednesday morning Beijing time an...
Chinese spacecraft enters Mars orbit, becomes world's second in two daysThe orbiter-rover combo became the second spacecraft in two days to reach the red planet. An orbiter from the United Arab Emirates led the ...
Mars ready for its close-up: China releases space probe's first imageThe uncrewed Tianwen-1 took the picture at a distance of around 2.2 million km (1.4 million miles) from Mars, according to the China Nation...
China spacecraft lands on moon to bring rocks back to EarthThe lander was launched Nov. 24 from the tropical southern island of Hainan. It is the latest venture by a Chinese space program that sent ...
China to launch its first spacecraft to moon to collect samples, return to earthThe rocket, which will send the Chang'e-5 spacecraft to Earth-moon transfer orbit, is scheduled to be launched from the Wenchang Spacecraft...
China successfully launches reusable spacecraft, keeps mission details secretAfter a period of in-orbit operation, the spacecraft will return to a predetermined landing site in China. It will test reusable technologi...