People worldwide celebrate the Lunar New Year today, which occurs on the second new moon to follow the Winter Solstice.

China's Shenzhou-16 crew have a "garden of vegetables in space. "The plants that grow in the garden are watered in the ...

Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong, part of China's three-person Shenzhou 19 mission, completed an 8.5-hour extravehicular activity ...

Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and ...

The Shenzhou 17 crew, Tang Hongbo, Tang Shengjie and Jiang Xinlin, have been keeping busy with experiments, Earth photography ...

China's new Haolong space cargo shuttle. See it launch in this animation. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central ...

Shenzhou-19 astronauts Cai Xuzhe Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze sent their Spring Festival greetings from China Tiangong space ...

For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...

Shenzhou-19 astronauts simulate natural photosynthesis, bringing long-haul crewed missions a step closer to reality.

Shenzhou-19 astronauts Cai Xuzhe Song Lingdong and Wang Haoze sent their Spring Festival greetings from China Tiangong space station in a video relea ...

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