Today is an important day for China's space agency. No, the country isn't launching anything new into space, and in fact, it's sort of the opposite. The Tiangong-2 space station is coming back down to ...

Uncrewed Shenzhou also delivered supplies and window fixing kit China's uncrewed Shenzhou-22 spacecraft has successfully docked with the Tiangong space station, providing relief to the crew who were ...

Chinese astronauts have implemented protection measures against space junk on the Tiangong space station following an incident where debris cracked the window of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft. This led ...

China’s small space station, Tiangong-2, has burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere as part of a planned deorbital maneuver. It was launched in 2016 as a test bed for space technologies and was ...

China has launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China's Tiangong space station ...

China released new pictures of its Tiangong space station Tuesday as Chinese astronauts and space officials made a public relations visit to Hong Kong. These images, taken about a month ago, show the ...

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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 Oct ...

BEIJING -- 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 property ...

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 central ...

China’s second space lab will return to Earth in July 2019 in a controlled destruction, the country’s space agency said Wednesday. The announcement comes just six months after the country’s first ...

China’s second space lab will return to Earth in a controlled demolition Friday, according to the country’s space agency. Most of the craft will burn up in the atmosphere, but a small amount of debris ...