The Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer — SMILE — lifted off on May ...

The far side of the moon and distant Earth, imaged by the 2014 Chang’e-5 T1 mission service module. Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has announced a ...

A Long March 2D rocket lifts off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, trailing bright yellow-orange exhaust against a clear blue sky, carrying the CSES-2 (Zhangheng-2) satellite on ...

A new study published in The Innovation highlights the launch of Haishao-1 (HS-1), China's first low-inclination orbit synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite. This marks a breakthrough in global ...

The Shijian-19 satellite carried seeds to orbit, exposing them to the microgravity environment to test plant mutation in space. Reading time 2 minutes A Chinese satellite has returned to Earth after ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's satellite megaconstellation plans could clog low Earth orbit with large spent rocket stages, analysts warn. Those rocket ...

China faces a tall order in its efforts to catch up to Elon Musk's SpaceX satellite service. SpaceX's Starlink already has nearly 7,000 operational satellites in orbit and serves around 5 million ...