In a noteworthy development, the Aurora capsule aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has sustained cracks, prompting ...

There could be a new space race as China boosts its presence in outer space, even fielding a state-of-the-art space station ...

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 ...

The Tiangong-2 space station is coming back down to Earth, and it’s going to do so in pieces. The China Manned Space Engineering Office announced earlier this week that today is the day that the ...

The three Shenzhou-14 astronauts — commander Chen Dong and Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe — are settling in for a lengthy stay aboard China's Tiangong space station.

China's space agency has set up a new program with the intent of sending people to the moon by 2030 and the Tiangong space station is making its final preparations to achieve this goal.

Tiangong-1 was the first part of China’s Tiangong program, which would eventually lead to the country putting a larger space station in orbit in 2023. Over the years, China launched multiple ...

The Tiangong program (which translates to “heavenly palace” in English) is the lead-up to China’s 2022 plan to launch a permanently manned space station.

Tiangong-1 Tiangong-1 was launched by the China National Space Administration in 2011 and was called the "potential political image" of China. It was a part of the country's efforts to be a more ...

China's space program remains highly secretive and some experts have complained that a lack of information about Tiangong 1's design made it harder to predict what might happen upon its re-entry.