The coming flight is not an isolated experiment but part of a coordinated effort to give China a domestic ecosystem of ...

Behind the headline numbers was a deliberate strategy: use high launch cadence to harden industrial capacity, validate ...

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center — China launched its Shenzhou-21 spacecraft on Friday, carrying a new three-person crew to man the country's Tiangong space station on a mission focused on scientific ...

Space is crucial for national strength, global influence, and future industrial development. During the Cold War, space primarily symbolized technological skill and ideological status. Today, it ...

BEIJING, China -- 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 ...

The amendment states that no government funding given to NASA, the National Space Council, or the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy can be used to “ collaborate with, host, or ...

JIUQUAN, China — China said Thursday it's on track to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 as it introduced the next crew of astronauts who will head to its space station as part of the country's ...

China's first astronaut cave training, organized and led by the Astronaut Center of China (ACC), successfully concluded in ...

This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...

On Sept. 25, 2008, China's space program launched its third human spaceflight mission, Shenzhou 7. Three taikonauts blasted off in the Shenzhou spacecraft on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan ...

BEIJING — China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China's space station. The Shenzhou ...

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.