While the future of the nearly 23-year-old International Space Station remains uncertain after 2024, China says its newly equipped Tiangong station will be up and running by next year.

China’s Tiangong space station has been operational for nearly two years, having been fully assembled in November 2022 with the addition of the Mengtian science module. The upgrades will occur ...

Crew berths on Tiangong appear considerably more comfortable than those on the ISS. So what did we learn about Tiangong from this tour? Well, admittedly not more than we could have guessed.

Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and breathable oxygen by mimicking a chemical reaction in plants. The technology ...

The Shenzhou-19 crew aboard the Tiangong space station successfully conducted the world’s first in-orbit demonstration of artificial photosynthesis technology, producing oxygen, as well as the ...

Astronauts on China's Tiangong space station successfully produce oxygen and rocket fuel using artificial photosynthesis, ...

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 ...