BEIJING, July 3 (Xinhua) -- For millennia, the Red Planet has inspired poetry, sparked curiosity, and captured our imagination as a distant point of light in the night sky. Today, though, Mars has ...

HEFEI, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- China is pressing ahead with its Mars sample-return mission, for which a planetary protection laboratory is to be built in the first phase of Hefei's Deep-Space Science City ...