Three Chinese astronauts are once again stuck aboard the Tiangong space station, this time after a dramatic rescue of their predecessors exposed just how fragile the country’s crewed access to orbit ...

Three astronauts who were stranded in space for over a week have returned to Earth, but their escape plan has left a new group of explorers without a way to get home. Astronauts Chen Dong, Chen ...

China has launched an unmanned "lifeboat" to the Tiangong space station, ending a month-long fiasco. The spacecraft will eventually ferry home the marooned Shenzhou-21 crew, who have been stuck ...

The Shenzhou-21 crew has been marooned on China's Tiangong space station after three of their colleagues were brought back to Earth in the wrong spacecraft. For now, the astronauts have no safe way of ...