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 finished constructing Tiangong in 2022. The current crew, which arrived aboard the Shenzhou 16 spacecraft on May 30, is the fifth astronaut mission to visit the orbital outpost.

Tiangong-1: Radar Images of Uncontrolled Chinese Space Station That Will Crash Into Earth's Atmosphere on Easter Weekend Published Mar 23, 2018 at 8:03 AM EDT Updated Mar 23, 2018 at 8:14 AM EDT By ...

Tiangong-1 will break apart into pieces, all of them flying together on the way down, like a flock of mismatched birds. Lighter material will slow down faster and thus experience less heat, which ...

Tiangong is smaller than the ISS, in overall dimensions measuring about one-fifth as large. Its total mass is approximately 77 tons (69,900 kg).

Tiangong, which means "Heavenly Palace" in Chinese, was built by the Chinese Manned Space Agency (CMSA) and provides a platform for scientific research for countries not involved in the ISS program.

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

A Long March-2F rocket carrying the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft takes off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center for a crewed mission to China’s Tiangong space station, near Jiuquan, Gansu province ...

China's Tiangong-1 space station is predicted to fall somewhere between the latitudes of 42.8 degrees north and 42.8 degrees south, the area shaded in yellow and green here.

Tiangong 1, China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control space station, re-entered the Earth's atmosphere Sunday night, Chinese space authorities say. It mostly burnt up on re-entry over the ...

Tiangong-2, launched in 2016, was a shorter-lived test station designed to assess living conditions in orbit, including growing food and measuring radiation levels.

Tiangong, the humanoid robot described as the world's first full-sized humanoid robot capable of running solely on electric drive, is on display at the Beijing-based China's National and Local Co ...