China's Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter has imaged the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during its close pass by the Red Planet, aiding global efforts to study the rare interstellar interloper. 3I/ATLAS is only the ...

The race to Mars has quietly become the defining contest of twenty-first century spaceflight, pitting a state-backed Chinese ...

CNSA’s 2026 space missions will take China’s space program to new heights. From Chang’e‑7 Lunar Mission to the Xuntian space ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To prepare for China's first Mars mission, Tianwen-1, the China Academy of Space Technology built ...

The very first image of Earth from space was taken on October 24, 1946, from a German-made rocket launched from New Mexico. The U.S. seized the rocket at the end of World War II and studied its ...

The country’s space authorities said they were investigating whether an object had hit a Chinese spacecraft and the risks tied to it. By Alexandra Stevenson and Selam Gebrekidan Reporting from Hong ...

China is rounding off what has been a year of big progress in space, including major crewed lunar landing tests, new rockets ...