One of the world’s leading space powers, China, is developing a new robotic defense system for its Tiangong space station.

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Beijing - China is to build its own airfield in Antarctica, media reported Monday, as Beijing continues to expand its footprint in the most remote corners of the globe. The airstrip will be built to ...

During the austral summer, Cape Crozier—a 40-minute helicopter ride from the McMurdo Antarctic research station—is home to a million or ... Schmidt can calculate the penguins' locations and hunting ...

providing uninterrupted zero-carbon power for the research equipment and essential living facilities at Qinling station, which was established in February last year as China's fifth Antarctic ...

The timing of the announcements and the locations of the stations makes it highly probable that China and Russia have entered an ... Geophysical Year that invigorated scientific research in Antarctica ...

China is preparing to mark 30 years of polar expeditions, when on 20 February 1985 opened its first permanent research station in Antarctica ... more areas to map them. As a gift for the 30th ...

He has covered foreign policy and defense matters, especially in relation to U.S.-China ... has created a map that lays bare the isolation of a South African research base in Antarctica where ...

On a remote island in the Southern Ocean, China’s Qinling Station has switched on Antarctica’s first large-scale hydrogen energy system — a breakthrough in sustaining research operations in one of the ...

China currently has five stations in Antarctica, including one that opened last year. It has now lodged plans for a new summer research station in West Antarctica — with China's Ambassador to ...

The NSF helps manage the three U.S. research bases in Antarctica that are staffed year-round: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station ... Countries "such as Korea and China have been rapidly expanding ...