Solar flares accelerate energetic electrons that escape into interplanetary space, guided by the Parker spiral magnetic field ...

A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station, as Beijing steps up space diplomacy amid a burgeoning battle with the United States for ...

The three-person Shenzhou 20 mission arrived at China's Tiangong space station today (April 24) at 11:49 a.m. EDT (1549 GMT), beginning a six-month stay aboard the outpost. Their off-Earth chase ...

Yet as relatively empty as that lab vacuum may be, space makes it look like soup. Interplanetary space is far more rarefied, with just a few dozen particles in each cubic centimeter. That thin ...

April 24 (UPI) --China launched a crew of three astronauts for orbit Thursday to begin a six-month-long mission aboard the Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou-20 spacecraft blasted off from the ...

The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous and dock at the Tiangong space station around 6.5 hours after launch. There, they will be greeted by the incumbent Shenzhou 19 crew ...

China will launch three astronauts to its space station on Thursday – coinciding with its 10th Space Day - to replace their colleagues manning the station for the past six months, it was ...

After multiple stress tests that filled the inflatable space station modules with water until they burst like balloons, the private startup has transitioned to shooting their latest prototypes ...

BEIJING, April 24 (Reuters) - China sent three astronauts to its permanently inhabited Tiangong space station on Thursday in its 15th crewed spaceflight and 20th overall in its Shenzhou program ...