China Space Program

The Shenzhou 12 mission is scheduled to lift off tonight (June 16) from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 9:22 p.m. EDT (0122 GMT on June 17).

China is looking at the ways of getting astronauts to Mars and back safely and potentially establishing a long-term presence on the Red Planet.

China launched four new satellites into orbit on Thursday (June 10), including a commercial satellite for tracking near-Earth asteroids.

China's Mars rover Zhurong used a tiny camera to snap a self portrait of itself with its lander on the Red Planet.

The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped a shot of China's first-ever Red Planet rover, called Zhurong, on June 6, about three weeks after the wheeled robot touched down.

China is getting ready to send three taikonauts to its new space station core module, although we don't yet know when it will happen and who will go.

A new Chinese weather satellite launched into orbit Wednesday (June 2) with "complete success," according to one of the participating state contractors.

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The Tianzhou-2 cargo spacecraft launched from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center today (May 29), carrying 6.64 tons of supplies toward the core module of China's new space station.

China's Tianhe space station module has passed on-orbit tests and is ready to receive its first visitor, an automated cargo ship.

China's first Mars rover Zhurong rolled onto the Red Planet's surface late Friday (May 21) to begin exploring its Utopia Planitia home.

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China is gearing up to launch the first cargo mission to its new Tianhe space station module this week.

China has released the first photographs taken by its Zhurong rover, which touched down on Mars late on Friday (May 14) as part of the country's Tianwen-1 mission.

China's first-ever Mars rover will roll into action on the Red Planet this weekend, if all goes according to plan.

China's Chang'e 5 spacecraft completed a historic delivery of moon rocks to Earth late last year, but the mission is still continuing with experiments in deep space.

China just successfully landed its first rover on Mars, becoming only the second nation to do so.

China is about to attempt its first landing on the Red Planet.

For the first few months of 2021, the Martian atmosphere was buzzing with new visitors from Earth.

China's plucky Yutu 2 rover is about to wake up and continue to explore the far side of the moon as the nation works to land a rover on Mars this May.