Waiting aboard Tiangong are Shenzhou 16 astronauts Jing Haipeng, Zhu Yangzhu and Gui Haichao. The trio will hand over control of the orbital outpost and prepare for their return to Earth ...

Chinese astronauts aboard the Tiangong space station are studying anaerobic archaea in an experiment to determine if some of Earth's early forms of life can handle a simulated cosmic environment.

The Chinese space station module Tiangong-1 completed a destructive ... as seen via a study from NASA’s Orbital Debris Program Office which reviewed the hazards posed by space hardware ...

The three astronauts will live on the space station for six months Three Chinese astronauts have taken off for the Tiangong space ... permanently inhabited space outpost, after the Nasa-led ...

China has not participated in the International Space Station project but has built its own orbital research stations. Tiangong 1 was in orbit from 2011-2018 and Tiangong 2 from 2016-2019.

Samples of bricks made of varying compositions from lunar soil simulant will be launched to the Tiangong space station aboard the upcoming Tianzhou 8 cargo mission, according to a report from ...

China’s spacecraft with three people on board, Shenzhou-14, docked with the orbital outpost, the China Central ... the assembly and construction of the Tiangong space station, developing it ...

Dominick has spent some of his six months aboard the space station sharing stunning imagery of not only Earth and beyond, but also of the interior of the orbital outpost itself. But with SpaceX ...

The Soyuz spacecraft has delivered Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the orbital outpost. The ISS crew will now check the air tightness of the ...

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