Astronauts with China's Shenzhou-11 manned spacecraft, which is scheduled for blast-off early Monday, will be special correspondents for Xinhua News Agency during their space mission.
The spacecraft will dock with orbiting space lab Tiangong-2 within two days and the astronauts will stay in the space lab for 30 days before returning to Earth.
U.S. space agency NASA has opened its door to allow private companies to install their own modules on the International Space Station.
Astronauts traveling to Mars might be at risk of long-term brain damage and even dementia due to galactic cosmic ray exposure, a new study said Monday.
SpaceX may not be the first to send humans to Mars because Boeing's CEO wants to beat Elon Musk in the race to the red planet. But how will Boeing do it?
An Australian-designed rocket engine is heading to the International Space Station (ISS) for a year-long experiment that could ultimately revolutionise space travel.
It is almost closing time at the China Science and Technology Museum (CSTM) and six-year-old Shi Jiajun is still standing in line, somewhat forlornly, in front of a "spacecraft," waiting for a "ride."
The cylinder-shaped black object bears no resemblance to any ordinary clock, but it is one of the most advanced timepieces ever.
China on Thursday launched space lab Tiangong-2 into space, paving the way for a permanent space station the country plans to build around 2022.
China will launch its Tiangong-2 space lab from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi desert at 10:04 p.m. Thursday as part of an increasingly ambitious space program that aims for a manned space station by around 2022.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the nation's largest missile developer, plans to build a space-based information network that will provide global coverage.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket exploded Thursday on its launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida, dealing a blow to the California-based company's ambitious space exploration project, and even America's commercial space industry.
A pair of U.S. astronauts floated outside the International Space Station Thursday for a six-and-a-half hour spacewalk to perform maintenance work, including retracting a thermal control radiator that is no longer in use.
Commercial real estate development giant SOHO China Ltd, which is also the country's biggest shared office space provider, is to sell three properties in Shanghai, according to the chairman of the Hong Kong-listed company.
U.S. astronauts who flew the Apollo moon-landing missions in the 1960s and 1970s are experiencing higher rates of heart problems that are thought to be caused by their exposure to deep space radiation, new research said Thursday.
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Dragon capsule is currently the only spacecraft able to bring supplies to and from the International Space Station
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