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Chinese researchers sent a bunch of zebrafish to space and now they’re swimming weirdly!
Aboard China’s Tiangong space station, four zebrafish 'aquanauts' are thriving in their out-of-this…
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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 Chinese space center found a mysterious jamming device outside its base just weeks before a crewed rocket launch
The jammer can be bought online and has a maximum range of 32 feet, but can still disrupt a satelli…
Matthew Loh
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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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Two Chinese astronauts completed a 7-hour spacewalk on Sunday, marking the country's first successful spacewalk since 2008
Liu Boming and Tang Hongbo spent seven hours outside the station installing a panoramic camera and …
Matthew Loh
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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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China's historic moon mission is just the start of its plans to dominate space
China's Chang'e-6 lunar probe successfully returned to Earth carrying the first-ever samples from …
Tom Porter
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NASA chief says China could claim the moon as its own territory if it beats the US to the lunar surface
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told Politico that Chinese military aggression in the South China Se…
Kate Duffy
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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…
Cheryl Teh
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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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Russia says it is pulling out of the International Space Station from 2024, ending decades of collaboration with NASA
Russia will focus its efforts on building its own space station, Roscosmos director general Yuri Bo…
Marianne Guenot
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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 and NASA are racing to the moon. Side-by-side photos hint NASA has the edge, but China's secrecy makes the race hard to call.
NASA and China each just launched landmark missions in their efforts to put astronauts back on the …
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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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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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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China is allowing another rocket body to fall to Earth uncontrolled this weekend. It probably won't hit you.
China's Long March 5B rocket left its 23-ton core to fall to Earth uncontrolled. The forecast for d…
Paola Rosa-Aquino,Morgan McFa…
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China's Long March rocket debris falls in Indian Ocean close to Maldives, ending days of uncertainty
The debris from China's disintegrating Long March rocket entered the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday a…
PTI
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SpaceX responds to NASA's concerns over Starlink collisions in outer space: 'The reliability of the satellite network is currently higher than 99%'
SpaceX plans to create a megaconstellation of over 42,000 Starlink satellites and released 46 more …
Grace Kay
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NASA flags concerns about overcrowding, collisions as Elon Musk plans to send another 30,000 SpaceX satellites into orbit
NASA questioned SpaceX's claim that there's "zero risk" of a Starlink satellite colliding with larg…
Huileng Tan
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Debris from a giant Chinese rocket booster is set to plummet uncontrollably to Earth, raining parts across unknown locations this weekend
Experts say a 25-ton piece from a Chinese rocket booster will crash down to Earth this weekend. No …