China has almost reached the red planet. The Chinese probe Tianwen-1 is just days away from entering orbit around Mars. That means it's already close enough to get some pretty good looks at Earth ...

A few days ago, the Chinese National Space Administration launched their Tianwen-1 mission to Mars from their launch site in the province of Hainan. It should arrive at the Red Planet in April ...

China has invited the global scientific community to participate in its Tianwen-3 Mars exploration mission, according to a statement released by the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on March ...

Tianwen-1's large solar wing dominates the view, but the Martian atmosphere and surface topography are clearly visible. Courtesy of CNSA Read more: China succeeds in putting a probe in Mars orbit ...

China's Mars probe lifted off on Jul 23 from the southern island of Hainan. The mission was dubbed Tianwen-1 (“Questions to Heaven”) in a nod to a classical Chinese poem that has verses about ...

Liu Jizhong, chief designer of China’s Mars mission, told the Second International ... according to a 2022 speech by Tianwen-1 mission lead Sun Zezhou. Namrata Goswami, a space policy researcher ...

China Opens Global Invitation for Tianwen-3 China has officially invited international scientists to participate in its ...

In the race for the red planet, China has taken the lead, with its Tianwen-3 mission launch date brought forward two years.

The administration said that Tianwen-1 was in stable condition ... and marks China's most ambitious Mars mission yet as it seeks to join the United States in successfully landing a spacecraft ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2 ... Tianwen 1 was launched in July 2020, and it successfully touched down on Mars in May 2021. The probe deployed a rover, named Zhurong ...