"If there is a space race, China's already winning it, and could win it dramatically in the next few decades." ...
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 ...
NASA and China are locked in an unprecedented competition to achieve humanity's first rocket launch from another planet's surface, with Mars samples worth their weight in scientific gold hanging in ...
Scientists have focused their exploration on the Jezero Crater on Mars, an area identified as the remnant of an ancient lake. In July 2024, when Perseverance collected samples from a rocky area named ...
NASA’s Perseverance rover made a thrilling discovery on Mars: a rock sample containing minerals that on Earth are tied to ...
China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos," the country's space agency ...