The crew consists of Commander Cai Xuzhe, 48, and two rookie astronauts - Song Lingdong, 34, a former air force pilot, and Wang Haoze, 34, a spaceflight engineer and China's third female astronaut.

A SpaceX Starship lander will land with the first people to walk on the Moon since 1972 within one of nine sites on the lunar South Pole during the Artemis 3 mission, NASA announced Tuesday. The ...

Compared with Shenzhou-18, the payload space of Shenzhou-19 has been increased by 20 percent, making it possible to transport more time-sensitive and essential supplies for astronauts and related ...

An artist’s concept of an Artemis astronaut deploying an instrument on the lunar surface. NASA NASA has updated its list of potential landing sites for the next human visit to the moon ...

Reuters Three Chinese astronauts successfully docked at the nation's permanently inhabited homegrown space station on Wednesday, marking a significant milestone in its space exploration efforts.

China sent three astronauts on Wednesday to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the construction of human habitats.

NASA stressed there is no immediate threat to the astronauts currently on board, though they are staying on the U.S. side of the station to be near evacuation vehicles in the event of an emergency.

The space agency will conduct further scientific and engineering studies on these areas as it prepares for this historic mission. Listen to Story Nasa has identified nine potential landing regions ...

JIUQUAN, China (Reuters) - China sent three astronauts on Wednesday to its permanently inhabited space station, where they will conduct dozens of scientific experiments, some related to the ...

“The Apollo astronauts struggled a lot with lunar dust. It’s electrostatically charged, so it sticks to everything, and it’s basically crushed up glass in terms of how abrasive it is. It poses dangers ...

Hundreds of people lined the streets, waving and cheering the names of the taikonauts, China’s word for astronauts, as they were sent off. At the Tiangong space station, the Shenzhou 19 crew met ...

NASA's astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been told to prepare for an urgent evacuation amid growing safety concerns. The US space agency and its Russian counterpart ...