China can now generate roughly half the power generating capacity of the United States thanks to renewable sources in the Gobi and western deserts, The South China Morning Post (SCMP) reports.

While the 62-foot-tall (19 meters), four-stage Ceres-1 can send 880 pounds (400 kilograms) to low Earth orbit (LEO), the ...

A GIANT two-legged dinosaur that dwarfed the T-rex stomped through the Gobi Desert over 65 million years ago. The proof? Its ...

China is planning to build a nuclear power plant on the edge of the Gobi Desert that would be the first in the world to use ...

lighting up the Gobi Desert with a deafening roar. Hundreds of people lined the streets, waving and cheering the names of the taikonauts, China’s word for astronauts, as they were sent off.

To them the word Gobi is shorthand for "gravel desert." And at this rocky, gale-scoured desert's heart, in the reaches of northern China, is the Alashan Plateau, a place so remote and sparsely ...

China’s outlined a buildout of nuclear power in the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025), released in March 2021. China plans 150 new nuclear reactors over the ...

After a half-century hiatus, thorium has returned to the front lines of nuclear power research as a source of fuel. In 2025, China plans to start building a demonstration thorium-based molten-salt ...

The Shenzhou 17 spacecraft lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on the edge of the Gobi Desert in northwestern China atop a Long March 2-F rocket at 11:14 a.m. (0314 GMT ...

Barren yet beautiful, the moonscapes of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are an alluring world of steppes, boreal forest, sand and rock. Here, visitors can bookend their days with yoga and Buddhist teachings, ...