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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.
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, ...
China set to send 3 astronauts on longest crewed mission yetChina is preparing for its longest-ever crewed space mission, the country will send 3 astronauts to live on its space station for 6 months....
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 lands spacecraft on Mars in latest advance for its space programPlans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic tests before rolling down a ramp to explore an icy area of Mars k...
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...
China's 'space dream': A long march to the Moon and beyondThe country has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United States and Russia, whose astronauts and cosmonauts have decades of ...
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...