China’s Tiangong-1 space lab was billed as a potent symbol of the country’s rise when it launched in 2011. Now, the lab is out of control and expected to crash-land on Earth by the end of ...

Here’s how it works. Tiangong-1 is a single-module space station operated by the China National Space Administration. The module was launched in 2011 and hosted two crews of taikonauts (Chinese ...

The Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques has published two radar images of Tiangong-1, an uncontrolled Chinese space station hurtling closer and closer to Earth.

Update for 9:30 p.m. EDT: China's Tiangong-1 space station fell to Earth above the southern Pacific Ocean today (April 1) at 8:16 p.m. EDT (0016 GMT on April 2). Read the full story: Farewell ...

China lost control of its first space station, Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace" in March of 2016. The spacecraft is expected to burn up in Earth's atmosphere on the evening of April 1. As of ...

Sun Zhibin says robotic thruster could latch onto unidentified object approaching critical Chinese space infrastructure and push it away China is developing a rapid-response space defence system to ...

The new development was announced by Sun Zhibin of the National Space Science Centre in Beijing during a talk at Nanjing ...

Understanding the characteristics of microbes during long-term space missions is essential for safeguarding the health of ...

Analysis of swabs from China's Tiangong Space Station has revealed a new strain of bacteria sporting new adaptations for ...

Sun Zhibin says robotic thruster could latch onto unidentified object approaching critical Chinese space infrastructure and ...