China’s crewed space program has just been stress tested by the very problem experts have warned about for years: a dangerous ...

Today is an important day for China's space agency. No, the country isn't launching anything new into space, and in fact, it's sort of the opposite. The Tiangong-2 space station is coming back down 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 ...

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 ...

China’s second space lab will return to Earth in a controlled demolition Friday, according to the country’s space agency. Most of the craft will burn up in the atmosphere, but a small amount of debris ...

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China released new pictures of its Tiangong space station Tuesday as Chinese astronauts and space officials made a public relations visit to Hong Kong. These images, taken about a month ago, show the ...

China has been dreaming of someday becoming a powerhouse in space exploration. Now, the country is inching closer to its dream after it finished the construction of the Tiangong space station last Oct ...

Tiangong ( above the surface. It is China's first long-term space station, part of the Tiangong program and the core of the "Third Step" of the China Manned Space Program; it has a pressurised volume ...

BEIJING -- China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control Tiangong 1 space station is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere sometime this weekend. It poses only a slight risk to people and property ...

Tiangong 1, China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control space station, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere Sunday night, Chinese space authorities say. It mostly burnt up on re-entry over the central ...

China’s second space lab will return to Earth in July 2019 in a controlled destruction, the country’s space agency said Wednesday. The announcement comes just six months after the country’s first ...