China

China's planned mission to bring rock samples to Earth from Mars would beat both NASA and the European Space Agency to the punch.

An office worker in Beijing developed a parasitic infection that caused worms to grow under her right eyelid.

Researchers have named a new species in the Homo genus. What do we know about these "big headed" people?

The Hailin impact crater is a newly-discovered scar in the mountains of Northeast China left behind by a meteor impact, but geologists aren't sure exactly when this happened.

Chinese officials have announced the discovery of a massive deposit of high-quality gold ore, potentially worth around $83 billion, which could end up being the largest known deposit of the precious metal anywhere in the world.

Chinese scientists claim they have made a converging energy beam weapon — but did they really, or have they been watching too much Star Wars?

Active volcanoes were erupting on the far side of the moon 2.8 billion years ago, the first lunar samples returned from the far side reveal.

Archaeologists say the "oracle bones" from ancient China were used in magical attempts to predict the future.

Incredibly well preserved dinosaurs at China fossil site were thought to have been buried in huge volcanic eruptions, similar to the Mount Vesuvius that covered the city of Pompeii 2,000 years ago. But new research says this isn't how things happened.

A new trial that compared acupuncture to a convincing placebo suggests that the treatment can help relieve sciatica pain.