all from the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Division — got off the ground at 5:17 pm as their spaceship's carrier, a 20-story-tall Long March 2F rocket, soared into skies from the Jiuquan ...

The Mongol Derby takes everything you know about a horse race and makes it more challenging-it even has a waiting list to participate. "The top part is surviving the elements and having this ...

The crew’s landing module came down slowly after separating from the return vehicle, descending on a red-and-white parachute, in Dongfeng, in China’s northern Inner Mongolia region on the edge of the ...

A joint research team has discovered a fossil belonging to a previously unknown genus and species of mammal in the Late Cretaceous (100–66 million-year-old) strata of Mongolia's Gobi Desert.

Credit: Tsukasa Okoshi et al. A scientific team discovered a previously unknown species of tiny mammal in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. The animal lived during the Late Cretaceous period, when ...

Professor Mototaka Saneyoshi (OUS) added, “Finding such a tiny fossil in the vast expanse of the Gobi Desert feels like a gift from the Gobi Desert. It’s nothing short of miraculous.” ...

We should remember that even if Gobi Bears are proven to be a subspecies of brown bear, none of the latter are fit to live in the Gobi. (No bear, regardless of its relation to the Mazaalai, can ...

A camera affixed to the International Space Station recently spotted some curious symbols amid a barren desert landscape ... value in educating people about the happenings on Earth, and beyond.

and Chen Dong wave during a departure ceremony before boarding a bus to take them to the Shenzhou-20 spaceship at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert in northwest China on April ...

That's it for our rolling coverage of today's space launch from the Gobi Desert. Thank you for following ... "So it will require international people joining this mission, working together to ...

A Long March-2F carrier rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft and a crew of three astronauts, lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi desert, in northwest China.

approximately six hours after their launch on a Long March 2F rocket from the Gobi Desert, the Associated Press reports. The Shenzhou 20 mission is commanded by Chen Dong, who is making his third ...