Planetary ScienceApril 29, 2024
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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Extraterrestrial LifeDecember 14, 2023
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
AstronomyNovember 21, 2023
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
AstrophysicsOctober 13, 2021
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
AstrophysicsJuly 8, 2021
Highest-Energy Particles Yet Arrive from Ancient Crab Nebula
Astronomers have observed record-breaking photons that strain classical theories of acceleration
Space & PhysicsApril 21, 2021
China Is Set to Launch First Module of Massive Space Station
The new orbiting laboratory will host research from Chinese and international scientists
Particle PhysicsSeptember 22, 2020
Powerful New Observatory Will Taste Neutrinos’ Flavors
The Chinese JUNO experiment will aim to answer a mystery about the particles’ mass
Space & PhysicsJuly 15, 2020
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
The SciencesMarch 19, 2020
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