The proposed mission would involve a new planet-hunting telescope that would scan nearby stars for signs of Earth-like worlds ...

Nevertheless, given the important implications of the SGIIN project on China’s overall economic and military capabilities, it ...

China has made space exploration a top priority in recent ... impact” to change its orbit “at the end of the 14th five-year plan (2021-2025), or 2025, 2026”. “We will start to improve ...

China wants to launch its first large space telescope in late 2023 to survey the skies, deliver new insights about distant ...

China’s first large space telescope could launch as soon as 2023. The new telescope will be called the Chinese Space Station ...

After final assembly, Tiangong will have a mass of 100 tons — or 1/5 that of the International Space Station. Chinese ...

But lunar work was dealt a setback in 2017 when the Long March-5 Y2 ... least 10 years -- realising an ambition to maintain a long-term human presence in space. While China does not plan to ...

The Tianzhou 5 cargo and Shenzhou 15 crewed missions will launch late in the year ... new materials and space technology, Chinese space officials have said. The original plan, first laid down ...

The country’s space agency ... Last year, China proposed a rocket strike to divert an asteroid called Bennu, a 78 billion kilogram rock that will come within 7.5 million kilometres of the ...

A Chinese cargo vessel docked with the country's under-construction space station Tuesday ahead of a new three-person crew ...

If all goes according to plan, the China Space Station Telescope (CSST ... Not surprisingly, they often compare it to Hubble and its 32 years of breathtaking observations. If the telescope ...