China is preparing to send a new kind of eye into orbit, a space observatory built to map the cosmos with a breadth and ...

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center — China launched its Shenzhou-21 spacecraft on Friday, carrying a new three-person crew to man the country's Tiangong space station on a mission focused on scientific ...

China is racing to turn a long imagined science fiction concept into hardware: a gigawatt scale solar power plant in orbit ...

Space is crucial for national strength, global influence, and future industrial development. During the Cold War, space primarily symbolized technological skill and ideological status. Today, it ...

On Sept. 25, 2008, China's space program launched its third human spaceflight mission, Shenzhou 7. Three taikonauts blasted off in the Shenzhou spacecraft on a Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan ...

China's Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft's return from its Tiangong space station in early ...

A Chinese lunar capsule returned to Earth on Thursday with the first fresh rock samples from the moon in more than 40 years, offering the possibility of new insights into the history of the solar ...

This screenshot from CCTV (China Central Television) shows China’s first moon rover Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, in an image taken by the camera on the Chang’e 3 moon lander, Dec. 15, 2013. China does not ...

A Chinese space crew is stranded at the country’s Tiangong space station after tiny pieces of space debris were believed to have struck their return capsule, China’s spaceflight agency said Wednesday.