A damaged return capsule on the Tiangong space station triggered a rare rescue launch six months ahead of schedule.

Wrapping up 204 days in orbit, three Chinese astronauts flew back to Earth aboard a Shenzhou spacecraft Friday, leaving three crewmates behind on the Tiangong space station with a busted lifeboat.

Shenzhou 22 will carry home the three astronauts of the Shenzhou 21 mission, who had been without a lifeboat for 10 days.

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space debris struck their vehicle.

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Russia intends to place a space station into polar orbit, giving it an unparalleled view over a vital strategic region.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — It’s an unprecedented space streak: 25 years of people living off-planet without even a moment’s pause. With only five years left at the scientific outpost, NASA is ...

Come the end of the current decade, or the beginning of the next one at the latest, the years-old International Space Station (ISS) will drop from the sky and crash into the ocean, ending one of the ...

NASA astronaut Chris Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev arrived at the ISS just in time ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Boeing's new Starliner capsule ended up in the wrong orbit after lifting off on its first test flight Friday, a blow to the company's effort to launch astronauts for NASA next ...