China launches mission to Mars China has launched its most ambitious Mars mission yet in an attempt to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft on the red planet.

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 ...

China’s Zhurong rover used ground-penetrating radar to find signs of beaches beneath Mars’ surface, adding evidence to the idea the planet hosted an ancient ocean.

The 10th test of the SpaceX Starship has been launched and by all accounts was wildly successful in meeting its objectives.

The landing marks the third visit to Mars in just over a week. Two spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates and China swung into orbit around Mars on successive days last week.

China is going full throttle in its quest to land astronauts on the moon by 2030. That was clearly evident in an Aug. 15 ...

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 ...

A former NASA administrator testified that it was “highly unlikely” the agency would win the new space race unless something ...

On August 6, the China Manned Space Agency successfully tested a high-fidelity mockup of its 26-ton "Lanyue" lunar lander.

BEIJING (AP) _ China's budding space program plans to explore the moon for commercially useful resources and hopes one day to take part in an international expedition to Mars, members of the ...

The China Manned Space Agency announced that its manned lunar lander—named Lanyue, which means embracing the ...