BEIJING (AP) — China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China's space station. The Shenzhou 22, which successfully docked at the Tiangong ...

Three Chinese astronauts whose return to Earth was delayed by space debris hitting their vessel last week have boarded another spacecraft and are expected to land in China on Friday, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said. The Chinese space agency also ...

Beijing — China launched the Shenzhou 22 spacecraft on Tuesday to help bring back a team of astronauts after a damaged spacecraft left them temporarily stranded on China's space station. The Shenzhou 22 will be used sometime in 2026 by the three ...

China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft took a hit from a piece of space debris floating through orbit, causing Chinese officials to delay the spacecraft’s return from its Tiangong space station in early November 2025. China’s Shenzhou-20 spacecraft – shown ...

Last week, news emerged that the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft docked to China’s Tiangong space station had sustained serious damage, likely due to space debris. The capsule was meant to allow a crew of three astronauts to return to Earth on November 5, but ...

Ad astra per aspera” is an ancient Latin phrase meaning “to the stars through hardships.” Forty years ago, the harrowing hardships of questing for the stars were seen in cold Florida skies when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 8 miles above its Cape Canaveral launch site,

InterstellOr, a Chinese space tourism startup, targets its first crewed suborbital flight in 2028, offering passengers a brief microgravity experience above the Kármán Line.