The unmanned Tianwen-1 reached Mars in February 2021 on the country's inaugural mission there. A robotic rover has since been deployed on the surface

The find - after Zhang was granted more than 17 hours on a sophisticated radio telescope in Guizhou - was announced in the official Ministry of Science and Technology newspaper

China said on Monday it plans to fly to the Red Planet in late 2028, to collect rock samples and bring them back by 2031 - two years ahead of NASA and the European Space Agency

Its homegrown Nuri rocket achieved a major step in efforts to jumpstart the country's space programme after a first test failed late last year

The Long March-2F rocket sent to China's Tiangong space station re-entered Earth's atmosphere and broke up, a Spanish astrophysics expert said

China landed the Chang’e 5 on the Moon in December 2020 and took samples of lunar soil, known as regolith, as well as rocks.

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India plans to sign a deal with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to cooperate in advanced technologies, from supply chains...

Its suborbital accelerator, a colossal centrifuge facility, looks like a flying saucer on its side, the UK popular science weekly said

Three companies allegedly sent blueprints for satellite, rocket, and defence prototypes to China without permission, an act that a US official said 'harms national security'

Australia has granted regulatory approval for three rockets to be launched from the privately owned Equatorial Launch Australia's (ELA) Arnhem Space Centre, PM Anthony Albanese said

Beijing plans to launch a satellite in 2028 that will test wireless power transmission technology from space to the ground from an altitude of 400km