Digital technologies, including 3D digital scanning and information collection, are used to preserve cultural relics at the Longmen Grottoes, a world cultural heritage site in central China's Henan Province | China Xinhua Sci-Tech

China’s space mining era is here! 🚀 The "Tiangong Kaiwu" program, launched by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, marks the country’s systematic entry into space resource development. Targeting the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and beyond, the plan will master key technologies like autonomous mining, low-cost transportation, and in-orbit resource processing. A bionic hexapod mining robot has already passed tests, ready for microgravity operations 🌕. Moon’s helium-3 (enough for hu