The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...

China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, with its Tianwen-1 landing platform, which touched down on the Red Planet in May 2021. The mission’s success aided China’s development of the more ambitious ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To prepare for China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, the China Academy of Space Technology built ...

China race to bring rocks back from Mars to a ‘tit-for-tat’ orbital stand-off, here are some of the year’s most notable space ...

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 ...

With recent cuts to Mars Sample Return, China will lead the charge to Mars and to the moon. Credit: NASA In the Senate hearing considering the confirmation of Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator, he ...

China hit a major milestone in 2025 with the country's first launch and landing attempt of a reusable orbital rocket.

China’s Zhurong Mars rover has found evidence of an ancient coastline on the red planet. The coastline in the southern Utopia region, detailed in the journal Scientific Reports, was likely left by a ...

China’s Mars rover Zhurong has found additional evidence to support the theory that Mars was once a vast ocean world. The new findings include tracing some ancient coastlines that may have once ...