Two Chinese astronauts completed an 8.5-hour spacewalk on Jan. 20, a sojourn that installed debris shielding outside the Tiangong space station.

Aboard China’s Tiangong space station (the name means Heavenly Palace), scientists are offering a glimpse of the future. In a recent demonstration, Chinese astronauts operated a series of experiments ...

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

The termination of the IPO of Changguang Satellite Technology, a remote sensing commercial company in Northeast China as an example of the difficulties encountered by Chinese space companies.

Credit: China Manned Space Agency Chinese astronauts have just created rocket fuel and oxygen in space using a new type of ...

An expert said that the object was likely a Chinese spacecraft that re-entered the atmosphere and burned up. Live footage from a camera set up by The Asahi Shimbun in Tarumizu, Kagoshima ...

Breathing New Air Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country's Tiangong space station using a ...

For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the heavens”. Xuntian is currently planned to be launched in mid-2025 to fly ...

Without the attached spacecraft, the Chinese station weighs about 66 tons — a fraction of the International Space Station, which launched its first module in 1998 and weighs around 465 tons.