While the world watches Elon Musk aim for Mars, China has been quietly building and rehearsing for their own Martian colony - and their plan is more real than you think. With simulation bases already ...

BEIJING - China on May 29 launched a space probe on the country’s first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them home for research, reported Xinhua state news agency.

Previously, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), a major CASC institute, provided the satellites. CAST stated in December it had developed large and small satellite platforms for Guowang ...

In just two years, China achieved an extraordinary feat of engineering by building the Tiangong space station, a project that rivals even the most well-established space programs like NASA’s ISS.

China has launched its Tianwen-2 mission, dispatching a spacecraft to gather samples from an asteroid near to Mars. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) anticipates that this mission ...

China has completed its first overseas new-generation radio telescope in northern Thailand, bolstering a global scientific network that monitors deep space signals and tracks subtle shifts in the ...

BEIJING -- The Golden Dome system pressed ahead by the United States and its other actions to deploy space-based weapons will heighten the risk of triggering a space arms race, said a Chinese ...

The China National Space Administration has shared the first image from its Tianwen-2 probe, which is en route to Kamo‘oalewa, a near-Earth asteroid.. The image was captured by a camera onboard ...

A fireball meteor was spotted streaking across the night sky over China's Maoming City on May 28. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu. ... and your name and location to [email protected].

A new image released by China's space agency offers the first glimpse at the Tianwen 2 spacecraft, which is en route to collect samples from one of Earth's "quasi-moons". The photo shows some ...

Daniel Wall, now based in North Carolina's Triangle region, was born in China in 1965. One of eight siblings, he grew up with few resources -- and no idea what his future would hold.

China has two Long March missions tentatively scheduled in June. VCG/VCG via Getty Images. After a packed spring season, the space industry is easing into summer with a relatively slow start.