High above our planet, a "cosmic smile" has taken shape. Riding aboard the Vega-C launch vehicle, the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) satellite, jointly developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the European Space Agency (ESA), took off from the space launch site in Kourou, French Guiana, at 11:52 am on Tuesday.

Chinese astronomers have unveiled the mysterious origins of a young pulsar located in the Milky Way's halo, providing compelling observational evidence for the study of such objects' formation.

Chinese scientists have successfully tested a ground-based system capable of wirelessly transmitting power to multiple moving targets simultaneously, marking a major breakthrough in the global race to harness solar energy from space.

China's output of robot reducers, a core joint component, soared 73.3% year on year in the first four months of 2026, with industrial robot production expanding 25.7%, official data showed on Monday, as artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape China's industrial landscape.

China launched a Long March-8 carrier rocket on Sunday in the southern island province of Hainan, sending a new satellite group into space.

China's satellite navigation industry continues to expand, with the total output value of the sector reaching 629 billion yuan (about 91.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2025, an increase of 9.24 percent year on year, according to a newly released white paper on Monday.

​Chinese researchers have successfully engineered a "biological pacemaker" in a petri dish, creating a sinoatrial node organoid that can be regulated by nerve cells to control the heartbeat, a breakthrough that offers a new platform for studying heart rhythm disorders and drug development.

Speaking of China's economic performance in the first four months, Fu Linghui, spokesperson and chief economist of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), cited several reasons that show steady economic growth: Production and supply maintained steady growth, market sales continued to expand, foreign trade showed strong resilience, employment and prices remained stable overall, new growth drivers strengthened, and high-quality development advanced with improved momentum.

The Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceship will be launched at an appropriate time in the near future, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Saturday.

The total output of China's BeiDou space-time industry expanded to 1.3323 trillion yuan ($186.5 billion) in 2025. Among this, the satellite navigation industry, serving as the foundation of the BeiDou space-time sector, reached 629 billion yuan, up 9.24 percent year-on-year, demonstrating strong resilience and significant growth potential, per the new edition of the annual white paper on China's BeiDou Space-time Industry Development released by the GNSS and LBS Association of China, or the GLAC, on Monday.