The new space station crew includes American Chris Williams, who holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and is a board-certified medical ...

The two astronauts selected from the Hong Kong and Macao special administrative regions have completed a series of classes and field training exercises in preparation of their debut flight, according ...

Astronauts from NASA, the Canadian Space Agency, and the European Space Agency gathered with flight surgeons and support ...

To land a 200,000-pound unpowered “flying brick,” NASA first had to torture a sleek Gulfstream II into behaving like a crashing spacecraft. This is the story of the Shuttle Training Aircraft—its ...

Earlier this month, China was forced to delay the November 5 return of three astronauts from its Tiangong space station after concerns that their ride home — a Shenzhou-20 spacecraft parked at the ...

A Chinese space crew is stranded at the country’s Tiangong space station after tiny pieces of space debris were believed to have struck their return capsule, China’s spaceflight agency said Wednesday.

BEIJING — A group of Chinese astronauts faces a delayed return to Earth after their spacecraft was believed to be struck by a small piece of debris. Their return, originally scheduled for Wednesday, ...

A new crew took off for China's space station on Friday, including the country's youngest ever astronaut and four lab mice. The Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-21 mission crew lifted off at ...

China held a send-off ceremony on Friday for a new crew of astronauts set to depart for its space station, including its youngest "taikonaut" and four lab mice. The Tiangong space station -- crewed by ...

China began selecting its fourth generation of astronauts in October 2022 and announced the completion of the process in June last year. Ten astronauts were chosen: eight spacecraft pilots and two ...