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Additionally, China is also investing in a human lunar program, seeking to land its own astronauts on the surface of the Moon ...

Photo: Map of Utopia Planitia, Zhurong Mars rover landing site, and four possible ancient shorelines. Photo: Courtesy of the Aerospace Information Research Institute of Chinese Ac ...

"We found evidence for wind, waves, no shortage of sand—a proper, vacation-style beach," said geologist Benjamin Cardenas.

The Curiosity rover detected the largest organic molecules to date on Mars, which may be fragments of fatty acids, or some of the chemical building blocks of life.

The Zhurong Mars rover is named after the fire god Zhurong, a character in Chinese myths. The rover is part of China’s Mars Mission. It landed on Mars in 2021 and explored the surface for 358 ...

China's Zhurong rover has uncovered evidence of an ancient ocean on Mars, with ground-penetrating radar detecting a buried shoreline beneath the Utopia Basin. The rover’s scans revealed sloping ...

Curiosity has previously discovered small organic molecules on Mars, but these recently found compounds are larger and would ...

Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago, according to new research. China’s Zhurong rover and its ground-penetrating radar detected ...