A number of astronauts have been stuck in space due to unfavorable weather at the landing site. Returning to Earth is a ...

China's Shenzhou-21 crew of astronauts is technically currently stranded on board the Tiangong without a usable spacecraft at their disposal.

Shenzhou 22 will carry home the three astronauts of the Shenzhou 21 mission, who had been without a lifeboat for 10 days.

China's first emergency space launch went ahead without incident on Tuesday, as the country plugged safety risks at its ...

Three veteran Chinese astronauts are stuck – for now – aboard the Tiangong space station after their return capsule was hit and damaged by space debris fragments. China's space agency has not revealed ...

A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the ...

BEIJING (AP) — Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation's space station Friday after more than a week's delay because the return capsule they had planned to use was damaged, likely from ...

BEIJING, China -- China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control Tiangong 1 space station is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere sometime this weekend. It poses only a slight risk to people and ...

China's uncrewed Shenzhou-22 space vessel arrived at the Tiangong space station on Tuesday morning, avoiding the potential stranding of three Chinese astronauts on the orbiting space outpost.

Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center — China launched its Shenzhou-21 spacecraft on Friday, carrying a new three-person crew to man the country's Tiangong space station on a mission focused on scientific ...

See Chinese astronauts giving haircuts to one another aboard the Tiangong space station. A barber's tools in space are a ...

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Wang Jie, a Shenzhou-20 astronaut, returns on the Shenzhou-21 spaceship's return capsule after it touched down on Earth at the Dongfeng landing site in ...