According to the China National Space Administration, Tianwen 1 (天问), China’s interplanetary mission, has completed all of its scientific objectives. The government said on Wednesday … Read more
Yun Wang is a Senior Research Scientist at the California Institute of Technology, and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Oklahoma. … Read more
Three Chinese astronauts arrived on Thursday to help build China’s rival to the International Space Station China successfully launches first crewed mission to its new … Read more
A research project led by the University of Science and Technology of China, involving astronomers from China, the United States and Chile, has discovered the … Read more
According to Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China’s manned space project, China will launch the core module Tianhe (天和, Harmony of the Heavens) of the … Read more
The Chang’e-5 robotic mission landed on lunar soil with the aim of collecting 2kg of samples of dust and rock to bring back to Earth. … Read more
China launched the third Long March-5, the largest carrier rocket of the country, from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China’s Hainan Province on Friday … Read more
Yutu-2 (玉兔 二號), the Chinese lunar rover launched on December 18, 2018, and landed in the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken basin, a … Read more
According to the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST, 中国空间技术研究院), China plans to build a 200-tonne megawatt-level space-based solar power station by 2035. The space-based … Read more
Scientists are determined to carry out two of China’s most challenging space projects next year: its lunar mission Chang’e 5 (嫦娥五号) and its first exploration … Read more
The China Aerospace Technology Corporation revealed the first image of its Mars explorer, a probe that will be launched in 2020. Related: Chinese space program … Read more
On Wednesday, an educational park was inaugurated not far from Jinchang, in the Gobi desert, with the aim of showing students and tourists what life … Read more
The Chinese probe Chang’e-4 has successfully landed on the far side of the Earth’s natural satellite, thus making the first moon landing on the hidden … Read more
A few days ago the Chinese media (and others) talk about the project of launching a “fake moon” in orbit to illuminate the streets of … Read more