When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China is launching its first space laboratory module Tiangong 1 today (Sept. 29) on a critical ...

Footage of the crew and views outside the Tiangong space station in these highlights. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta Music: Great Wall ...

A heavy-lift Proton rocket roared to life and blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Wednesday, sending a long-delayed 44,000-pound laboratory module into orbit for an eight-day flight ...

Tiangong-1, China's first space lab, launched in September 2011 and will fall to Earth in 2018 between March 30 and April 2. See photos and images of Tiangong-1's mission in our full gallery here.

Module to join the two-module combination already 400 km above the earth This file photo taken on April 29, 2021 shows a Long March 5B rocket, carrying China's Tianhe space station core module, ...

Having moved into China's Tianhe space station core module for more than a month, the Shenzhou-14 crew of three taikonauts are now only hours away from performing their first major missions in orbit, ...