
China’s Moon Atlas Is the Most Detailed Ever Made
The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe doubles the resolution of Apollo-era maps and will support the space ambitions of China and other countries
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China’s Moon Atlas Is the Most Detailed Ever Made
The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe doubles the resolution of Apollo-era maps and will support the space ambitions of China and other countries

New Evidence Discovered That Saturn’s Moon Could Support Life
Molecules in Enceladus’s icy plumes suggest that alien life could exist in our solar system

China Delays Launch of Its Xuntian Space Telescope
The Xuntian Space Telescope is China’s entry in a global race to unlock the secrets of dark energy, and it will now lift off no earlier than mid-2025

FAST, the World’s Largest Radio Telescope, Zooms in on a Furious Cosmic Source
China’s Five-Hundred-Meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope has detected more than 1,600 fast radio bursts from a single enigmatic system

Highest-Energy Particles Yet Arrive from Ancient Crab Nebula
Astronomers have observed record-breaking photons that strain classical theories of acceleration

China Is Set to Launch First Module of Massive Space Station
The new orbiting laboratory will host research from Chinese and international scientists

Powerful New Observatory Will Taste Neutrinos’ Flavors
The Chinese JUNO experiment will aim to answer a mystery about the particles’ mass

Chinese Spacecraft Poised for First Mars Mission
Tianwen-1 will attempt to send an orbiter, lander and rover to the Red Planet, a historically difficult destination

Carbon Conundrum: Experiment Aims to Re-create Synthesis of Key Element
An Ohio particle accelerator will test an alternative idea of how the universe’s carbon came to be