Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This illustration depicts what Mars may have looked like 3.6 billion years ago when an ocean could have covered a third of the ...

The chief designer of China's Mars exploration program has provided a long-awaited comment on the status of the country's Zhurong Mars rover. The solar-powered Zhurong rover, which is part of China's ...

China's Yutu-2 rover captured imagery of the lunar surface. See rover tracks and views from the far side of the moon. Credit: ...

More information has come to light regarding the hitchhiking mini-rover on China's Chang'e 6 sample-return mission to the moon's far side. The little Chang'e 6 rover is named "Jinchan" and weighs ...

China's latest lunar mission is carrying a secret rover to the moon's far side, new photos reveal. Eagle-eyed observers spotted the mysterious spacecraft strapped to the side of a lander that is ...

It's been almost a year since China's Zhurong Mars rover went silent, hunkering down to try and survive the harsh Martian winter. The rover was intended to wake up back in December, but it never did.

China’s first Mars rover is slumbering on the Red Planet after enduring a tough Martian winter and harsh dust storms, mission designer Zhang Rongqiao said on Tuesday, following the rover’s year of ...

BEIJING, April 25 (Reuters) - China's fully robotic rover on Mars, in longer-than-expected hibernation since May 2022, likely met with excessive accumulation of sand and dust, its mission designer ...

China’s motorized Mars rover has been dormant since last May, having entered a planned hibernation period that it couldn’t wake up from. Now scientists are offering an explanation for the rover’s long ...

China’s next Mars explorer is not a rover that crawls or a helicopter that hovers, but a hybrid drone that can roll across the ground and then leap into the thin air when terrain turns hostile. By ...

HELSINKI — China’s human spaceflight agency has selected two teams to develop prototype rovers for the country’s planned crewed moon mission before the end of the decade. The country last year put out ...

(CNN) — Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according to new research. China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating radar ...