The alarming finding forced China’s space agency to delay the affected crew’s return, triggering a convoluted game of musical ...

No trip to space can be counted a success unless you make it safely back to Earth. That’s a lesson American astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams learned when their intended eight-day stay aboard ...

Crew members of China's Shenzhou-20 mission recently detailed their reactions upon finding cracks in their spacecraft's ...

Space debris doesn’t only threaten satellites it can strand astronauts in orbit. That reality hit China’s Tiangong space station program in November, when a fragment smaller than a millimeter slammed ...

The Shenzhou 20 vehicle was deemed unfit to carry astronauts back to Earth after suffering a space junk strike. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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 being hit by space ...