Three taikonauts have been stranded on the Tiangong space station for the past five days. China's space program decided to use Shenzhou-21's return capsule to return the Shenzhou-20 crew to Earth ...

China's space agency has announced it will return a damaged spacecraft docked on Tiangong space station to Earth without crew after a suspected debris strike left it unfit for flight. The three ...

JIUQUAN, China (AP) — China said Thursday it’s on track to land astronauts on the moon by 2030 as it introduced the next crew of astronauts who will head to its space station as part of the country’s ...

China’s space program spent 2025 pushing its launch cadence to new heights, testing reusable rockets at scale and managing the first in-orbit emergency for its astronauts. The result was a year that ...

Wrapping up 204 days in orbit, three Chinese astronauts flew back to Earth aboard a Shenzhou spacecraft Friday, leaving three crewmates behind on the Tiangong space station with a busted lifeboat.

After suffering an emergency in space, it took NASA nine months to rescue its stranded astronauts. China took nine days. China continues its long march toward space dominance. On the heels of now ...

BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation's space station Friday after more than a week's delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from ...

A Long March 4B lifts off carrying the Ziyuan-3 (04) remote sensing satellite, Dec. 16 (UTC), 2025, climbing above the snow-dusted hills surrounding Taiyuan spaceport. Credit: CASC HELSINKI — China ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's rapid progress in developing space-based capabilities is alarming, a US official said recently. China has made dominating ...

"We're now in an era where there's multiple governments, multiple companies involved in space. So the shift is not just one organization needing to think about space rescue for their own needs." When ...

The paths of China and India in space show how Asian space powers are fundamentally transforming the global distribution of capabilities and influence in cislunar space. China and India are two of the ...