An curved arrow pointing right. China has successfully launched its second space lab, the Tiangong-2, as part of a plan to build a permanent space lab. Follow BI Video: On Twitter More from ...

Tiangong-2, in 2016. This allowed for docking and refueling objectives to be conducted, while the second module – still in orbit – is an advancement on the first, all building towards the ...

China is planning to send two new crews to its Tiangong space station in another busy year of human spaceflight. China's human spaceflight agency, CMSA, announced in early March that the country is ...

According to Zhang, Chinese scientists plan to conduct experiments on mice aboard Tiangong in the near future, focusing on ...

A pair of Chinese astronauts embarked on an extravehicular activity outside the Tiangong space station Friday, as the crew ...

The Tiangong-1 Chinese space station has been widely covered over the past few months, but it’s not the type of coverage astronomers want when discussing a space station. Back in October ...

The China National Space Administration launched the first module of its Tiangong space station in 2021, and finished it with its third module the following year. The space station is about one ...

The ISS and China Tiangong Space Station are the only two operational space stations in orbit. Tiangong, occupied since 2022, is designed to be used for up to 15 years. Check out more of Benzinga ...

They will relieve the Shenzhou-17 team, who have manned China’s Tiangong space station since last October. The crew will spend about six months on the space station. They will conduct scientific ...

In November 2022, Li's research team sent mouse muscle cell samples to Tiangong, China's operational space station, via the Tianzhou 5 cargo spacecraft. Researchers examine space station ...

This simulated image captured at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center on Nov. 16, 2024 shows China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-8 docking with the orbiting Tiangong space station. [Photo/Xinhua ...