Nearly six years ago the European Space Agency surprised its longtime spaceflight partners at NASA, as well as diplomatic ...

This simulated image captured at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Nov 30, 2022 shows China's Shenzhou XV manned ...

With China stepping up international cooperation and exchanges, it’s only a matter of time before foreign astronauts join the Chinese colleagues on missions to the station, Ji told reporters ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) had been preparing its astronauts for possible missions to China's three-module Tiangong space station. In August 2017, for example, ESA's Samantha Cristoforetti and ...

marking the first time China had six astronauts in space at the same time. The station’s third and final module docked with the station this month. The astronauts were carried out of the ...

Stargazers across the world, as well as celebrants of China's Lantern Festival, hailed the arrival of the full snow moon in ...

"The ultimate goal is for ESA to establish a long term cooperation with China and ESA astronauts to fly on China's space station," the agency said that year. "This is unfortunate news, but not ...

There's nothing like seeing your planet from space,' says one astronaut. Here's the path they took to being selected.