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 ...

Solar flares accelerate energetic electrons that escape into interplanetary space, guided by the Parker spiral magnetic field, and are responsible for the generation of the interplanetary Type III ...

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 ...

April 21 (UPI) --NASA launched its latest cargo run to the International Space Station early Monday morning. At 4:15 a.m. EDT, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft took off while aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

The International Space Station's extreme cleanliness may be harming astronauts' health by depriving them of beneficial environmental microbes, leading to immune-related issues.

astronaut Jonny Kim safely arrived on a Russian spacecraft at the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, hours after taking off from Kazakhstan. The Roscosmos Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft docked ...