When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China is launching its first space laboratory module Tiangong 1 today (Sept. 29) on a critical ...

Tiangong-1, China's first space lab, launched in September 2011 and will fall to Earth in 2018 between March 30 and April 2. See photos and images of Tiangong-1's mission in our full gallery here.

A heavy-lift Proton rocket roared to life and blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday, sending a long-delayed 44,000-pound laboratory module into orbit for an eight-day flight ...

A Russian Progress cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station early Monday, taking with it the two-decades-old Pirs airlock and docking compartment to clear the way for Thursday's ...

The newest habitable module for the International Space Station (ISS), Nauka, has arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations before launch. The module’s launch – which has ...