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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

New predictions for the defunct Chinese space station Tiangong-1 suggest it may fall back to Earth in mid to late March – but a Chinese engineer has quashed concerns that the re-entry is ...

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 ...

Chinese astronauts Cai Xuzhe and Song Lingdong conducted a spacewalk outside the Tiangong Space Station. Their tasks includes ...

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

Twenty-one humanoid robots joined thousands of runners at the Yizhuang half-marathon in Beijing on Saturday, the first time these machines have raced alongside humans over a 21-km (13-mile) course.