4+ hour, 44+ min ago  (236+ words) China successfully launched a remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday. The Yaogan-50 02 satellite was launched at 21:22 Beijing time aboard a modified Long March-6 carrier rocket and has entered its planned…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (234+ words) The dazzling lights of the aurora are created when high-energy particles from space collide with Earth's atmosphere. While scientists have long understood this process, one big mystery remained: What powers the electric fields that accelerate these particles in the first…...

2+ mon, 14+ hour ago  (143+ words) China on Thursday sent a remote sensing satellite of Algeria into space, using a Long March-2C carrier rocket. The remote sensing satellite, AlSat-3A, was lifted off at 12:01 (Beijing Time) from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, and entered…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (339+ words) A group of Chinese researchers revealed that the volatile loss from the lunar mantle was induced by the giant impact that formed the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin in the moon's far side, providing crucial evidence for understanding the impact of…...