People worldwide celebrate the Lunar New Year today, which occurs on the second new moon to follow the Winter Solstice.

Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and ...

The Shenzhou 17 crew, Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin, have been keeping busy with experiments, Earth photography ...

China's Shenzhou-16 crew have a "garden of vegetables in space. "The plants that grow in the garden are watered in the ...

Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, completed an 8.5-hour extravehicular activity ...

For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...

Shenzhou-19 astronauts Cai Xuzhe, Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze sent their Spring Festival greetings from China's Tiangong ...

China was left out of the plan. Nearly a decade later, China expressed interest in joining those on board the space station. The European Space Agency signaled support for the addition ...

Opinion: We must defend against China’s development of “counterspace applications” that “contest our access to the space ...

China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using ...

Shenzhou-19 astronauts simulate natural photosynthesis, bringing long-haul crewed missions a step closer to reality.

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