Less than a year ago, four pre-screened, trained mice arrived at China's space station, living in an automatically ...

NASA will move ahead with a new space telescope to see the cold, dusty universe far more sharply than any before it, chasing ...

Each year, Space Science Week brings together leaders across the space science disciplines to explore the latest developments and discuss the future of the field from a variety of perspectives, from ...

The Third International Conference on Space Science and Technology (Chongqing Session) took place in the southwestern municipality of Chongqing last week, attracting more than 500 experts and ...

The private and commercial space industry has transformed spaceflight in the 21st century. It has lowered launch costs, reliably supplied crew and cargo to the International Space Station, sent ...

China aims to break space technology choke points with thousands of experiments on the Tiangong space station over the next decade or so as it expands its crewed exploration programme. The China ...

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Flying some 240 miles above Earth's surface at 17,500 miles an hour, the International Space Station (ISS) is a science laboratory dedicated to helping humans learn how to live in space. Crucially, ...