The Chinese space age is upon us. Beyond banner projects like the nation's very own orbital space station and successful ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...

A space neophyte not long ago, China is now the United States’s main competitor for supremacy throughout the solar system.

China’s Tianwen-2 has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, a tiny quasi-satellite of Earth, beginning a mission to collect samples and ...

The probe sent back the first pictures of the asteroid Kamo’oalewa. Next step: landing on the surface and collecting samples ...

China’s spacecraft, Tianwen-2, has been hunting down its target — a so-called quasi-moon — ever since it launched from Earth ...

A new image of an asteroid, referred to as a “quasi-moon,” has been released ...

China confirmed in early 2025 that its Shijian-25 satellite had launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Site aboard a Long March 7A rocket, carrying a mission unlike anything the country had attempted ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...

China achieved a significant aerospace milestone by successfully landing its Long March rocket's first stage. This historic ...

The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the Sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks ...

A Chinese spacecraft on a mission to collect and return samples of a near-Earth asteroid beamed back its first image of its ...