The Tianwen-2 mission is part of China’s expanding deep space ambitions. it follows the Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter and landing mission launched in 2020. The Zhurong rover successfully landed on the ...

With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the potential source of that distinctive coloring, overturning a popular ...

The Mars Lander Mission (MLM), also known as Mangalyaan-2, has been approved by the Space ... Building on the success of the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), also called Mangalyaan, which successfully ...

A new golden age of lunar exploration is in full swing, and the Moon is no longer the province of global superpowers alone.

The close flyby offers a bonus opportunity for mission scientists ... the gravitational pull of Mars to pump the brakes and reshape its orbit around the sun. As the orbiter leaves Mars behind ...

NASA is currently struggling with restoring communications with its Moon orbiter that was built for an important mission. The orbiter named Lunar Trailblazer launched on February 27 but has ...

preparing to develop and launch a follow-up Mangalyaan 2 or Mars Orbiter Mission 2; becoming the fourth country to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon; becoming part of a select group of ...

The three-kilometre-thick ice sheet covering Mars's north pole is young, formed between 2 and 12 million years ago ... This joint NASA and DLR mission investigated Earth's deformation by measuring ...

SEE ALSO: NASA asked for cheaper ways to get Mars samples. It had one all along. The new data comes from the Zhurong rover, part of China's Tianwen-1 mission ... U.S. Viking 2 lander touched ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission ... Tianwen 2 will fly back to Earth's orbit and release its reentry module, which will return to the ground with the samples. The orbiter will ...