Three Chinese astronauts landed back on Earth on Wednesday (April 30, 2025) after six months on China's space station. The crew’s landing module came down slowly after separating from the return ...

This tardigrade is sporting what is perhaps the world’s tiniest ‘tattoo’, shown as highlighted ... On 8 April, NASA astronaut Jonny Kim travelled to the ISS on board a Soyuz rocket, together ...

If there's no gravity pulling on the contents of your stomach, it doesn't matter if some components of an astronaut's lunch are heavier or lighter than others. "There's no up or down in ...

NASA officially prohibits alcohol aboard its missions, but that didn’t stop some American astronauts from enjoying a wee nip with their Russian colleagues. “In the one-sixth gravity of the ...

Shenzhou XX astronauts, Senior Colonel Chen Dong (center), Colonel Chen Zhongrui (right) and Colonel Wang Jie, attend a departure ceremony on Thursday at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in ...

JIUQUAN, China – A Chinese rocket carrying three astronauts to the country’s space station blasted off from its remote launch site on April 24, the latest milestone in Beijing’s race to ...

JIUQUAN: China will send a new team of astronauts to its space station on Thursday (Apr 24) as it marches towards its ambition of becoming a space power to rival the dominance of the United States.

A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station, as Beijing steps up space diplomacy amid a burgeoning battle with the United States for ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong thanks to an amazing design, operations and science team — and a cadre of spacewalking astronauts. Hubble launched to Earth orbit 35 years ago ...

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They will replace three astronauts currently on the Chinese space station. Like those before them, they will stay on board for roughly six months. The space ship is due to be launched into space ...