In a noteworthy development, the Aurora capsule aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has sustained cracks, prompting ...

On Monday, in one of his first official tasks, NASA Acting Administrator Sean Duffy signed a new "directive" on commercial ...

China's space agency has set up a new program with the intent of sending people to the moon by 2030 and the Tiangong space station is making its final preparations to achieve this goal.

Project 921 is China’s ambitious leap into the era of human spaceflight—and it’s already reshaping the global space race. In ...

The Tiangong-2 space station is coming back down to Earth, and it’s going to do so in pieces. The China Manned Space Engineering Office announced earlier this week that today is the day that the ...

Now, China is making a longer-term commitment to the Tiangong program, with a blueprint for doubling the size of the space station. Chinese space officials originally said the space station would ...

Tiangong's assembly phase may not be over after all. Fresh off achieving another milestone in its space station program, China may end up enlarging the orbiting complex and perhaps use it to help ...

China's space program remains highly secretive and some experts have complained that a lack of information about Tiangong 1's design made it harder to predict what might happen upon its re-entry.

The Tiangong program (which translates to “heavenly palace” in English) is the lead-up to China’s 2022 plan to launch a permanently manned space station.

Tiangong-1 was the first operational component of the Tiangong program, a larger, modular space station intended to be in space by 2023. It was originally planned to be deorbited in 2013, but never ...