Space Exploration

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken Feb. 14, 1990, by NASA’s Voyager 1 at a distance of 3.7 billion miles (6 billion kilometers) from the Sun. Scientist Carl Sagan, in his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, said, “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.”

China’s Space Rescue Mission: Complete!

Detecting the flaw, bringing the crew home, launching a new rocket — all in just 20 days.

China Sets Out to Find a Second Earth

China Unveils Its 15th Five-Year Space Science Satellite Program

China Leads the Way, Searching for Water on the Moon

Lunar water can be converted into drinking water, breathable oxygen, and even rocket fuel.

A Second Earth? Habitable Super-Earth Discovered by Chinese-led Team

Is Kepler-725c, the newly found super-Earth, humanity’s next home beyond the stars?

Did China Just Take the Lead in Space Race?

As China's Tianwen-2 journeys toward asteroid 2016 HO₃ and comet 311P, the country challenges the U.S. and Japan in the crucial race for deep space exploration.

Is the China-Russia Lunar Nuclear Power Plant Another Sputnik Moment?

The International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), jointly led by China and Russia, is scheduled to deliver a nuclear reactor to the Moon between 2033 and 2035.

The Importance of Being Earnest-When You Crave China’s Lunar Samples

While the end of the tariff war remains distant, another long-standing area of competition between China and the U.S. has seen a positive development.

What If We Could Build a Mars Base… Using Mars Itself?

Scientists just made super-strong building material from Martian soil that's 2x stronger than steel. The future of Mars exploration? It's in the dirt.

China Unveils Ambitious 26-Year Space Science Plan

A plan aims to hunt for alien life, detect gravitational waves and search for habitable worlds by 2050.

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