China's Shenzhou-20 mission, led by veteran astronaut Chen Dong, is set to launch on Thursday, marking another step in their lunar ambitions. Chen, along with astronauts Chen Zhongrui and Wang Jie ...

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 ...

Astronaut Don Pettit will host a live conference on April 28 to discuss his 220-day mission on the International Space Station (ISS), where he conducted vital research, including 3D printing in ...

Astronauts for China's Shenzhou-20 space mission (left to right) Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui, and Chen Dong wave during a departure ceremony before boarding a bus to take them to the Shenzhou-20 ...

The trio will live aboard Tiangong for the next six months. China's latest astronaut crew has reached its orbital destination. The three-person Shenzhou 20 mission arrived at China's Tiangong ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) China is launching the Shenzhou-20 mission, sending three astronauts to the Tiangong space station for a six-month stay focused on scientific experiments ...

Having been to space five times in his career as an astronaut, Parazynski relished these quieter moments. “The rarity of just having this view out the window, being able to see your planet ...

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 ...

Jiuquan, China: A Chinese rocket carrying three astronauts to the country's space station blasted off from its remote launch site Thursday, the latest milestone in Beijing's race to become a ...

"Knock on wood, it can go another 10 years," former astronaut John Grunsfeld says. John Grunsfeld has a model of the Hubble Space Telescope on his bookshelf. It's right next to a model of a NASA ...

Jiuquan (China) (AFP) – China will send a new team of astronauts to its space station on Thursday, as the country marches towards its ambition of becoming a space power to rival the dominance of ...