China has a space station — it’s called Tiangong, the first module was launched in 2021, and it’s all going quite swimmingly, thank you very much. That’s essentially what we know about the ...

A new paper by University of British Columbia researchers paints a stark picture of the risks of space debris on commercial ...

The Shenzhou-19 astronauts entered the space station on Oct. 30, 2024. According to Cai, over the past three months, the crew has completed a series of tasks, including the handover with the ...

The pair were supported by crewmate Wang Haoze from inside the Tiangong space station. Mission commander Cai and Song completed multiple tasks before returning to the Wentian module airlock ...

The missions aim to provide flexible options and redundancy for supplying the Tiangong space station, while also illustrating the expansion and progress made by Chinese commercial space actors and ...

The scene looks familiar. Two crewmembers in spacesuits working on the exterior of an orbital facility high above Earth. But look closely and you’ll soon realize that this isn’t, as you may ...

For 43 days in 2024, four zebrafish orbited China’s Tiangong space station, surviving in space longer than any ... 1.2-liter tank, about the size of two water bottles. “Aquatic plants produce oxygen ...

the "fish astronauts" are expected to embark on another journey to Tiangong Space Station this year to help scientists study the effects of the space environment on vertebrate muscle and bone ...

A "fishbowl" in China's Tiangong Space Station will house six zebrafish and six grams of Ceratophyllum this year, according to Wang Gaohong from the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese ...