China wants to build a space-based solar power station in orbit around Earth, and it could do so in the next 25 years.

A newly discovered scorpion fossil is rewriting the story of ancient ecosystems. This rare find, named Jeholia longchengi, ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

Scientists in China have built the world’s most powerful spy camera, capable of recognising people’s faces from low-Earth ...

The 776th session of the Xiangshan Science Conference, themed "Key Scientific and Engineering Challenges in Near-Earth ...

China is expanding its presence and capabilities in the strategically vital geostationary belt, raising security concerns due ...

Earth’s climate is heating up faster than expected, and a major culprit is the changing behavior of clouds over oceans. As ...

Though it has some of the world's most significant reserves, Latin America has not emerged as a key player in the rare earth ...

NANJING -- A new study has revealed that a region of the Turpan-Hami Basin in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous ...

Given the increasing importance of rare earths, countries with large reserves are gaining significant economic and political influence.