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China launches first Mars mission
Beijing, Jul 23 () China successfully launched its first Mars probe on Thursday from the Wenchang S…
PTI
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China's new space carrier rocket successfully launches five satellites on its maiden flight
The rocket fills the gap in China's launch capability to the sun-synchronous orbit from 3 …
PTI
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China's Long March rocket debris falls in Indian Ocean close to Maldives, ending days of uncertainty
The debris from China's disintegrating Long March rocket entered the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday a…
PTI
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China just launched an ambitious Mars mission that could be its first to reach the red planet — and make it just the third nation to explore the Martian surface
The Tianwen-1 orbiter, lander, and rover mission successfully launched on a Long March 5 rocket Thu…
Dave Mosher
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NASA should be worried about China's blossoming space program
"Space exploration is the common dream and wish of humankind. We believe that the implementation of…
Ali Sundermier
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China's ambitious Tianwen-1 Mars mission - involving an orbiter, lander, and rover - just reached the red planet
China is the sixth nation ever to reach Mars. It could soon become the third to successfully land a…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Video from China's rock-collecting spacecraft shows the probe stick its landing on the moon
China's space agency announced it had landed its Chang'e 5 probe on the moon. Then it released the …
Susie Neilson,Morgan McFall-J…
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China just launched a mission to the moon to collect rock samples — the first time a country will have done so in more than 40 years
The Chang'e-5 mission is the latest step in China's ambitious plan to land on and study the moon. T…
Susie Neilson
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China launched a probe to the far side of the moon, stepping up its space race with the US
The mission, which is expected to last 53 days, will collect two kilograms of lunar samples from th…
Mikhaila Friel
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China is set to launch the first piece of its new space station on Wednesday night
China can't send its astronauts to the International Space Station, so it's building its own Earth-…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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NASA photographed the crash site of Israel's failed moon lander, and it's not pretty
"Despite the mishap, it is important to remember that Beresheet was the first spacecraft developed …
Dave Mosher
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A secretive, experimental Chinese spacecraft returned to Earth after 8 months. It's still a mystery what it was up to.
China's secret unmanned spacecraft returns to Earth after an eight-month mission, raising questions…
Mikhaila Friel
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Liquid nitrogen leaked onto wetlands around SpaceX launch pad before rocket-test explosion, federal regulators confirm
An aerial video shows patches of wetland around SpaceX's launch pad that are snow-white from the li…
Kate Duffy
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China just landed its Chang'e-5 spacecraft on the moon. The mission could bring moon rocks to Earth for the first time in 40-plus years.
The samples will come from a previously unexplored volcanic plain. China aims to send them back to …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Susie N…
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Jeff Bezos just announced where his private space company will launch its rockets
"Our new home here on the space coast is anchored right here at launch Complex 36," founder and own…
Jessica Orwig
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Russia launches Luna-25 mission to Moon, its first lunar lander in 47 years
The spacecraft will look for natural resources, including water, and analyse the effects of space r…
ANI
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MAVEN SPACECRAFT LAUNCHES TO MARS
MAVEN, which stands for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, should arrive at the Red Planet in …
Dina Spector
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The sparkly toy dinosaur that rode along on SpaceX's historic launch is now selling out almost everywhere
The dino served as the Crew Dragon's "zero-gravity indicator," meaning it started to float once the…