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 ...

China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

On May 14, 2021, China’s Tianwen-1 lander plummeted from space to streak through the skies above Mars’s vast plain of Utopia Planitia, with an aeroshell protecting it from the heat and plasma of its ...

The "sky ladder" involves a capsule guided by a series of carbon nanotubes, leapfrogging from one space station to another before landing on the moon.

China hit a major milestone in 2025 with the country's first launch and landing attempt of a reusable orbital rocket.

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Yet, the ...