Aboard China’s Tiangong space station (the name means Heavenly Palace), scientists are offering a glimpse of the future. In a recent demonstration, Chinese astronauts operated a series of experiments ...

Breathing New Air Chinese astronauts claim to have created rocket fuel on board the country's Tiangong space station using a ...

Shenzhou-19 astronauts simulate natural photosynthesis, bringing long-haul crewed missions a step closer to reality.

Astronauts on China's Tiangong station used artificial photosynthesis to turn CO₂ and water into oxygen and rocket fuel.

Most rocket fuels are based off fossil fuels, but these finite resources are also detrimental to the environment. Burning them releases monstrous amounts of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas ...

The 12 experiments carried out at the Tiangong space station focused on key technologies such as the conversion of carbon dioxide at room temperature.

The video itself is a reaction to some college students in Utah who caused an evacuation when the rocket fuel they were cooking up exploded. [Scott] himself theorizes that the fuel they were ...

Space is the only place where rocket fuel could be more precious than water. The China Manned Space Agency announced last month that taikonauts on the ongoing Shenzhou-19 mission successfully produced ...

They have successfully conducted experiments that mimic photosynthesis, converting carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and rocket fuel ingredients ... Shenzhou-19 crew aboard the Tiangong space ...

The trials verify that the fuel can survive ... hydrogen gas thrown into the bargain. Any conventional nuclear fuel would have trouble standing up to that but what the rocket engineers need ...

The space station is a kind of orbiting ... So as the rapidly expanding gas from the burning fuel is forced down towards the ground, it forces the rocket up into the sky.