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 ...

China is preparing to send a new kind of eye into orbit, a space observatory built to map the cosmos with a breadth and ...

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 ...

Mass resignations and deep budget cuts have weakened Nasa’s lunar program as China advances with successful missions and ...

China presents its space program as proof of rising global dominance, but the reality is more complicated. Behind the launches and headlines are serious technical, economic, and political challenges.

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 ...

A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Thursday with the first fresh rock samples from the moon in more than 40 years, offering the possibility of new insights into the history of the solar ...

BEIJING (AP) — 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. Today in ...

JIUQUAN, China -- China said Saturday that it successfully launched the Shenzhou-21 spaceship on a mission to the country's orbiting space station, sending its newest rotation of three astronauts -- ...

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 ...

This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. Last week, China launched its Shenzhou spacecraft into orbit, carrying three taikonauts, one of whom was a woman, China's first female astronaut. A few days ...

JIUQUAN, China (AP) — 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 ...