China will attempt to collect the first samples from the far side of the moon next year with its Chang’e 6 mission. The complex, four-spacecraft mission will launch on a Long March 5 rocket from Wenchang in May 2024...
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The Spy balloon was spotted near Billings, Montana, on Wednesday (Feb. 1) as it appeared to be hovering stationary(opens in new tab), high in the sky. On Thursday (Feb. 2), U.S. Northern Command and the North American Aerospace...
The Tianwen 1 orbiter recently captured photos of the Zhurong rover, its partner on the Tianwen 1 Mars mission, and NASA’s Perseverance rover as the two wheeled robots explored their...
The China National Space Administration is preparing to launch two new space station modules, named Wentian and Mengtian, on separate Long March 5B rockets in the coming months. Preparations for both missions...
The new video from the Chinese Manned Space Agency (CMSA) shows the space station’s 33.5-foot-long (10.2 meters) robotic arm rising up from behind the Tianhe module and reaching out to find a docking port in the...
China has fired up a machine designed to make unlimited energy fusion reactor known as the “artificial sun” – and wants to make it even hotter than the real sun. The Chinese experimental nuclear fusion reactor smashed...
Chinese scientists have built an “artificial moon” research facility that will enable them to simulate low-gravity environments using magnetism. Scientists plan to use the artificial moon facility to test...
Three Chinese astronauts, the first sent to orbit for space station construction, completed their three-month mission and returned to Earth safely on Friday. They spent 90 days at the Tianhe module on China’s space station...