A recent spacewalk conducted byChinese astronauts on the Shenzhou 21 mission sheds new light on the growing issue of space ...

China’s Tiangong Space Station received new debris shields following a high-speed impact that fractured Shenzhou-20’s window, ...

Chinese astronauts have implemented protection measures against space junk on the Tiangong space station following an incident where debris cracked the window of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft. This led ...

The ability of Russia to launch astronauts to the International Space Station remains in limbo after an incident last week at the Baikonur base in Kazakhstan.

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft, initially set to return its crew from a six-month mission on Beijing's Tiangong space station, was grounded mid-mission due to a crack in the return capsule's window.

Tiangong artificial photosynthesis turns CO₂ and water into oxygen and rocket fuel, reshaping life support and deep-space mission planning.

China successfully launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to assist in the return of three astronauts stranded on the Tiangong space station. This mission is part of the country’s efforts to ...

The docking restores a safe lifeboat for the three astronauts aboard Tiangong. While emergency return via the damaged Shenzhou-20 was technically possible, controllers deemed the cracked window too ...

China's Shenzhou-22 mission blasted off on Tuesday as the country looks to plug safety risks to its crewed spaceflight program and space station after a vessel was damaged in orbit earlier this month.

The spacecraft will travel to China's permanently inhabited Tiangong space station, where three astronauts currently reside with no flightworthy vessel that could return them to Earth in the event of ...

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space ...

In October 2022, China launched the final module of its orbiting space station. Since then, it hasn’t just been astronauts aboard Tiangong—an unusual and previously unknown microbe has also been ...