The military space race is heating up. China is developing a robotic design that can intercept and shove away suspicious ...

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

A pair of taikonauts have completed their first spacewalk aboard China's Tiangong space station, according to the China ...

Chinsese astronauts are conducting experiments with fruit flies and more aboard the Tiangong space station. Credit: China ...

Niallia tiangongensis’ belongs to a family already known on Earth, but it’s a brand-new species. Experts say it “defies ...

Chinese scientists discovered a novel strain of bacterium with “unique abilities” that allowed it to thrive on the Tiangong Space Station, according to a report. The newly named Niallia ...

The microbe demonstrated resilience to space-specific stressors, including enhanced repair from radiation damage.

The discoveries made in space do not always reach Earth immediately. In fact, the space stations that orbit our planet do so while inside they carry out different experiments that ...

JIUQUAN, China (AP) — A spaceship carrying three astronauts docked Thursday with China’s space station in the latest crew rotation, marking a further step in the country’s ambitions for a ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

Tiangong -- whose name means "celestial palace" in Chinese -- is the jewel in its crown. China has been excluded from the International Space Station since 2011, when the United States banned NASA ...

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at why you still can’t rely on chatbots, a new battery chemistry that could ...