Space is in an increasingly significant frontier in the competition between the US and China.

After years of research and US data analysis, China has built a working thorium reactor and run it through a successful fuel ...

Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful refueling of an operational Thorium-powered nuclear ...

In China’s Tarim Basin, spring brings fierce dust storms fueled by dry landscapes and shifting winds. NASA satellites ...

Chinese scientists have refuelled an experimental thorium-fueled molten salt reactor continuously without shutting it down.

Sky's Helen-Ann Smith travelled to the Gobi Desert to see what China believes life on Mars will feel like.

Unprecedented scale of test signals Beijing’s growing confidence in its capacity to counter advanced threats and project ...

An aerial drone photo taken on April 7, 2025 shows oleaster saplings in Hotan County of Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The Taklimakan Desert in northwest ...

The Chinese team is studying and developing a thorium-based nuclear reactor originally owned by the United States.