In an exciting twist of cosmic competition, China and the United States have sparked a modern space race aimed at lunar ...

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 created a new entity called the “Deep Space Exploration Laboratory” three years ago to strengthen the country’s approach to exploring the Solar System. Located in eastern China, not far from ...

China's mission to retrieve samples from Mars will advance to the flight model development phase within this year, Liu ...

Schematic of the Chinese Mars Sample Return mission, where the lander will drill 2 metres deep to collect the samples and scoop the surface materials with a robotic arm and drone. The origin of life ...

China says it is open to accommodating foreign participation in its Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission. As part of the effort, international partners can propose equipment that would be installed on ...