Space

The Long March-5B Y4 carrier rocket, with the Mengtian lab module of China's space station atop, was transferred to the launchpad at Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province on Tuesday, according to the China…

XICHANG, Sept. 6 (Xinhua) -- China launched a Long March-2D carrier rocket on Tuesday to place a remote sensing satellite group in space. The China Space Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) announced on Saturday it has successfully…

China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) and China Atomic Energy Authority (CAEA) jointly announced on September 9 that researchers studying samples returned from the Moon by China’s Chang’e-5 mission had discovered a new lunar mineral,…

China’s Wuzhen-8 drone again appeared at the Changchun air show, sparking debates among observers on the mysterious Unmanned Aerial Vehicle’s (UAV) purpose. So far, the analysis claims it to be a high-altitude, hypersonic,…

Russia is building new production facilities for the serial production of its Su-57 stealth fighters. Russian sources report that the new production assembly lines have been opened at the Komsomolsk-on-Amur aviation plant in the Far East.…

The Allen Telescope Array in California detected signal from the Voyager 1 probe, the NASA satellite launched 45 year ago that is currently speeding toward the outer edges of the solar system, way beyond the orbit of Pluto. Allen…

China launched a small solid rocket on Monday (Aug. 22), spawning a minor mystery about the number of satellites on the flight. The Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket lifted off at 10:36 p.m. EDT on Monday (0236 GMT, or 10:36 a.m. Beijing time on…

A group of hackers was able to take control of a decommissioned satellite and use it to stream a hacking conference’s talks and hackers movies. On Saturday, at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, Karl Koscher, one of the members…

NASA isn't taking its coming UFO investigation lightly. The agency announced in June that it will open a scientific study into UFOs (short for "unidentified flying objects"), or, as they've recently been rebranded, UAP ("unidentified aerial…

China is testing out its new Wentian space station module, including putting a new robot arm through its paces. Wentian was launched on July 24 and docked with the Tianhe core module hours later, expanding China's  robot Tiangong space…