This simulated image captured at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Nov 30, 2022 shows China's Shenzhou XV manned spaceship having conducted a fast automated rendezvous and docking with the combination of the space station Tiangong. [Photo/Xinhua]China on Thursday unveiled a list of the coun

"Eye on the sky" probes the universeThe Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope made several discoveries that challenged conventional understanding of the universe. They included a new type of repeating fast radio burst — extremely brief but bright flashes in the sky — and

China leads the world in four out of 11 frontier areas of academic research, with major improvements to clinical medicine, astronomy and astrophysics in the past five years, according to the annual report released on Tuesday by the Institutes of Science and Development of the Chinese Academy of Scie

This photo taken on Sept. 16, 2022 shows a soil testing robot in the Dahewan Demonstration Zone in Hulun Buir City of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.(Xinhua/Zou Jianpu)An unmanned tractor shuttles back and forth, harrowing a field where soybeans were just harves

China launches a new satellite into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, Oct 29, 2022. [Photo by Wang Jiangbo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Saturday morning to transport an experimental satellite into space, accor

The "China Sky Eye," also known as the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, has spotted a huge atomic gas structure in the vicinity of a galaxy group. [Photo/National Astronomical Observatories]China's ultra-powerful telescope has discovered the largest atomic c

A Chinese researcher installs the lobster-eye telescope, or the Lobster Eye Imager for Astronomy (LEIA), on Nov. 22, 2021. (NAOC/Handout via Xinhua)Scientists eyeing the distant universe are sometimes inspired by the diverse creatures on Earth. The lobster-eye telescope developed and launched

The ZK 1A, a new model of carrier rocket, conducts its debut flight at noon at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwestern China on July 27, 2022. [Photo/Xinhua]Backed by academy, ZK 1A becomes nation's mightiest solid-propellant modelThe ZK 1A, a new model of carrier rocket, conducted i

Chinese quantum computing startup Origin Quantum has raised almost 1 billion yuan ($148.2 million) in a Series B round of financing with the support of investors including the country’s state-backed funds, the company said in a statement.The government-backed Shenzhen Capital Group’s Hotland Innov