After boldly going to the Moon's far side, China is now in possession of more than four pounds of unprecedented lunar samples — the first ever collected in human history from that mysterious region.

China landed an uncrewed spacecraft on the far side of the moon on Sunday (1 June), a landmark mission aiming to retrieve the world’s first rock and soil samples from the dark lunar hemisphere ...

Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — China will launch the Tianwen-2 mission to sample a near-Earth asteroid next year, an official with the country’s space agency said Tuesday. Tianwen-2 is scheduled to ...

The first paper on the samples collected from China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe reveals that the specimens differ in some ways from those collected from the moon's near side. Thus, they could provide ...

China has advanced the launch of its Tianwen 3 Mars sample-return mission to 2028. The new timeline, two years sooner than ...

China will launch a nationwide population sample survey in 2025 to help monitor the demographic development of the country, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). This was reported by ...

China's ambitions do not end there. A few years from now it wants to take samples from asteroids near the Earth. By 2030, it aims to have put its first astronauts on the Moon, and to have sent ...

BEIJING--Chinese ground crews are standing by for the return of a lunar probe bringing back the first fresh samples of rock and ... functioning as expected, the China National Space Administration ...

China’s ambitious space program aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030, as well as bring back samples from Mars around the same year and launch three lunar probe missions over the next four ...

China will conduct a nationwide sample survey of population changes this year to accurately and promptly monitor the country's demographic development and provide basic information for its ...

The first paper on the samples collected from China's Chang'e 6 lunar probe reveals that the specimens differ in some ways from those collected from the moon's near side. Thus, they could provide ...