China has sent three astronauts into orbit on a mission designed to push the limits of human spaceflight. By studying how people cope with very long stays in space and testing key technologies, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Astronauts Zhu Yangzhu, Zhang Zhiyuan, and Lai Ka-ying, who is the first astronaut from Hong Kong, gesture as they attend a press ...

The Tiangong space station approaches Tycho Crater in stunning amateur transit footage.

China's Tiangong space station now has six astronauts aboard following the docking of the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft early Monday morning, May 25, 2026 — a mission that marks two firsts simultaneously: ...

China plans to add three new modules to Tiangong along with a co-orbiting space telescope, as the ISS heads for a Pacific ...

China launched its crewed Shenzhou-23 spacecraft and eased it into a successful docking with a space station early Monday as part of Beijing's ambitions to send humans to the moon by 2030, state media ...

JIUQUAN, China — China launched the Shenzhou 23 spacecraft Sunday night with three astronauts heading to its space station, including one set to stay in space for a year. The spacecraft blasted off ...

China's Shenzhou-23 crewed spaceflight mission launched on Sunday Shenzhou missions send astronauts to China's space station Tiangong Shenzhou-23 to be first one-year trip China's manned spaceflight ...