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

China has launched a key module of a new permanent space station, the latest in Beijing's increasingly ambitious space programme. The Tianhe module - which contains living quarters for crew ...

The space station's core module, called Tianhe, reached orbit in April 2021. Two more modules — Wentian and Mengtian — arrived in July 2022 and November 2022, respectively, completing the T ...

On April 28th, China successfully put the core module of their Tianhe space station into orbit with the latest version of the Long March 5B heavy-lift booster. This rocket, designed for launching ...

The China National Space Administration launched the first module of its Tiangong space station in 2021, and finished it with its third module the following year. The space station is about one ...

On Tuesday, Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong completed the longest-ever spacewalk, spending nine hours and six minutes working on the exterior of the Tiangong space station, setting ...

They spent 90 days at the Tianhe module on China's space station, some 380km (240 miles) above Earth. The three men had on Thursday boarded the Shenzhou-12 crewed spacecraft and undocked from the ...

China Shenzhou-19 crew aboard the orbiting Tiangong space station has carried out a variety of experiments since the ...

In-orbit construction of the space station began in April 2021, when China launched the first and central part of the outpost — the Tianhe core module. After that, several groups of astronauts ...

With the Shenzhou-12 launch and arrival of astronauts to the Tianhe core module ... From a Mars mission to the beginnings of a new space station, this year will be full of milestones for China.

China is set to embark on a series of ambitious space missions in 2025, including a new sample return mission, and the debut ...

XINHUA After nearly 30 years of preparations that included five unmanned flights and six crewed missions, China launched the first, and central, component of its space station, the Tianhe core ...