China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

The flowing celestial robes in Dunhuang murals, featuring flying goddesses, and the legendary attempt by Wan Hu to reach ...

The origin of life is one of the most fundamental and enduring questions of mankind and one of the three greatest Origin ...

Schematic of the Chinese Mars Sample Return mission, where the lander will drill 2 metres deep to collect the samples and ...

The Starship rocket which Elon Musk wants to use to take humans to Mars has exploded, sending a giant fireball into the sky ...

A new image released by China's space agency offers the first glimpse at the Tianwen 2 spacecraft, which is en route to collect samples from one of Earth's "quasi-moons". The photo shows some ...

One such formation, Utopia Planitia, a large plain in Mars’s northern hemisphere, was selected as the landing site for Zhurong, which touched down on Mars on May 15, 2021.

Zhurong had its sights set on a very different body of water—the vestiges of an ancient ocean located in the northern hemisphere of Mars. Topography of Utopia Planitia.

Launched from Hainan, China, in July 2020, the Zhurong rover landed on Mars in May 2021 in an area known as Utopia Planitia, a plain which lies in the largest-known impact crater in the solar system.

Since Zhurong landed in 2021 — in one of the largest and oldest impact basins on Mars, known as Utopia Planitia — the rover has traveled about 1.24 miles (2 kilometers) studying the geology of ...