Space Exploration

China’s going to start sending parts of its future space station into space as soon as 2020, with the aim of having it up and running by 2022.

OneSpace, a startup based in Beijing, on Thursday became the country’s first private company to launch its own rocket.

China’s dream of residing in a lunar palace will soon become a reality

China’s first space station burned up over the South Pacific on April 1.

The out-of-control space lab is expected to plummet to earth in a week.

As the world mourns Prof Stephen Hawking, who has died aged 76, there has been a particular outpouring of emotion in China, where the visionary physicist was revered by scientists, students, the state and even boy band stars.

In a China Global Television Network video from 2003, taikonaut Yang Liwei leans back in his orbital capsule, the overstuffed stripes of his spacesuit legs filling the frame. His helmet shield is up, so the viewer can gaze into his eyes as he speaks...

The Tiangong-1 or “Heavenly Palace” lab was launched in 2011 and described as a “potent political symbol” of China, part of an ambitious scientific push to turn China into a space superpower.

The “simulated Mars station” – a 95,000 square-kilometre tribute to the solar system’s second-smallest planet – will be built in Qinghai province’s Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan autonomous prefecture, not far from the westernmost tip of the Great Wall.

The astronauts spent 30 days in the space lab, where they carried out medical and scientific experiments, and tested the complex’s habitability

Analysts say development of Long March CZ-5 is crucial to success of nation’s future space program, including mission to Mars

China sent two astronauts into orbit to spend a month aboard a space laboratory--the plan is to have a permanent manned space station in service around 2022

The state-backed China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology is building a spaceplane that can fly up to 20 people to the edge of space

The new telescope is twice as sensitive as the world’s next-biggest single-dish radio telescope

China’s first space laboratory will come to a fiery end late next year

China’s military-backed space program plans a total of 20 space missions this year....

Chinese taikonauts will likely beat NASA astronauts back to the lunar surface in five to ten years, as it continues to drop off NASA’s crewed destination radar.