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A Chinese space station is about to crash to Earth - here's what it was doing
The thicker air of the atmosphere will tear solar panels and antennas loose, melting and disintegra…
Kevin Loria
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Watch China launch 3 taikonauts to its new space station on Wednesday night - the country's first human spaceflight in 5 years
China launched the first piece of its new space station in April, and it's already sending astronau…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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3 astronauts arrived at China's new space station, which it's building as it's banned from the International Space Station
Chinese astronauts were banned from the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011 by US lawmakers.
Sinéad Baker
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The Chinese space station hurtling towards Earth has crashed over the South Pacific
While space debris usually burns up in Earth's atmosphere and is generally unlikely to hit a person…
Dave Mosher,Kevin Loria
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3 Chinese astronauts have returned from a record-breaking visit to China's new space station
China aims to launch another taikonaut crew in October, keeping the nation on track finish its new …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China's first space station was decimated in a fireball over the South Pacific - here's how it went from launch to crashing back to Earth
But some material from the craft most likely survived, astrophysicist Brad Tucker of the Australian…
Kevin Loria,Dave Mosher
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A Chinese space station is hurtling toward Earth - here's how to track the crash as it happens
The exact location of the impending Tiangong-1 crash is still a mystery, but it will likely hit som…
Leanna Garfield
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Three Chinese astronauts have stepped foot on China's new space station for the first time, kicking off a three-month mission
Three taikonauts entered the station less than three hours after the Shenzhou-12 rocket docked, CGT…
Kate Duffy
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China wants to up the ante on the space race with a 'sky ladder' to Mars that can beam humans and cargo up in a capsule
The "sky ladder" involves a capsule guided by a series of carbon nanotubes, leapfrogging from one s…
Cheryl Teh
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These may be the last photos of a Chinese space station before it falls to Earth
"And the still small steps we take, like the ISS and other space stations, are proof that this part…
Dave Mosher,Kevin Loria
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China refutes NASA chief's claim that the country is looking to take over the moon
NASA chief Bill Nelson told a German news outlet that he was concerned China would land on the moon…
Cheryl Teh
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China is set to launch the next piece of its space station on Sunday — in a rocket that previously rained parts back onto Earth
The Long March 5B rocket has launched twice before, and both times its heavy body fell back to Eart…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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Why it's so hard to tell where the Chinese space station Tiangong-1 will crash
Earlier, scientists had expected that weather from the sun like solar storms and solar flares - bur…
Kevin Loria,Dave Mosher
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SpaceX satellites nearly collided with China's space station twice this year, sparking online criticism of Elon Musk's 'space junk'
The two incidents, on July 1 and October 21, involved satellites from SpaceX's Starlink Internet Se…
Huileng Tan
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China is set to launch the first piece of its new space station on Wednesday night
China can't send its astronauts to the International Space Station, so it's building its own Earth-…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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China says it's close to completing its independent space station as Beijing and Moscow intensify a space rivalry with the US
China's Tiangong is expected to be completed by the end of this year. It comes amid Russia's plans …
Weilun Soon
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A female astronaut made history this weekend when she became the first Chinese woman to ever complete a spacewalk
Wang ventured outside China's Tiangong space station for six hours on November 8 on a spacewalk wit…