China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

"The underground volcanic lava pipes by the Jingbo Lake are the most similar environment on Earth to the underground space of ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon from 590,000 kilometers awa ...

The Tianwen-2 probe is being prepped for launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The impact that carved out the moon's huge South Pole-Aitken basin may explain the puzzling differences between the lunar ...

The Tiandu-1 satellite, part of a trio launched in March 2024, was specifically designed for such high-precision tests and forms a backbone of China’s Queqiao Earth-Moon navigation network, as ...

China plans to launch an unmanned spacecraft to the moon this week to bring back lunar rocks – the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from Earth’s natural satellite since the 1970s.

China’s robotic circumlunar test flight in 2014 snapped this image of the moon with Earth in the distance. Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences This article originally appeared in the June 19 ...

China’s Chang’e-6 probe returned to Earth on Tuesday carrying the first ever samples from the moon’s unexplored far side, a historic feat for Beijing and boon for the country’s lofty space ...

China may have been a latecomer to the moon, but when its capsule full of lunar rocks and soil returned to Earth early Thursday, it set the stage for a new space race over the coming decades.

That will leave Tiangong as the only government-operated space station in low-Earth orbit. China plans to launch its own taikonauts to the moon starting in 2030, fueling what NASA Administrator ...