China will be sending three of its astronauts for a three-month mission on its first space station, which is currently under construction. The Shenzhou 12 capsule carrying the crew will be launched from the Jiuquan base in China's northwest next month. The astronauts will practice spacewalks ...

MOSCOW: Russia and China agreed Tuesday to build a lunar space station, as Moscow seeks to modernise its extraterrestrial might and catch up with the United States in the space race. Russia, which sent the first man into space during the Soviet Union, has been lagging behind Washington and ...

WENCHANG, Hainan: Construction of China's space station moved a step closer with the successful maiden flight of its new large carrier rocket, the Long March-5B, May 5, 2020. The Long March-5B was specially developed to launch the space station modules, said Wang Jue, chief director of the rocket ...

ISLAMABAD - Just like every space station has a specified time period in space and is eventually set to fall back to Earth, so is China’s space station that has completed its time and will fall back today. China’s space station Tiangong-2 is all set to fall back to Earth on July 19, Friday. ...

NEW DELHI - Taking its space missions to another level, India has announced its plans of launching an entire space station in upcoming years for the astronauts. Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) chief K Sivan revealed plans to launch up a space station like ISS in the year 2030. However, ...

NEW DELHI - India plans to establish its own "very small" space station in the next decade as the country gears up for a first manned mission beyond earth. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan said Thursday that the ambitious project would follow a successful launch of a ...

WASHINGTON/SEATTLE: NASA will allow private citizens to stay at the International Space Station (ISS) for month-long getaways at a cost of about $35,000 per night, the US space agency said . The shift reverses a long-standing prohibition against tourists and private interests at the orbiting ...

KARACHI: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry has said that Pakistan owns superiority in the field of `space science’ among the Muslim countries. He informed the media that the scientific committee, formed recently by the government to resolve moon-sighting controversy, ...

BEIJING – China announced today (April 24) to send people on a manned mission to the moon alongside building research station there within the next decade. Citing a top space official, China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the ...

MOSCOW - Russia on Thursday successfully launched a Progress MS-11 unpiloted cargo resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said in a statement. The launch of the spacecraft by the Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket was carried out at 14:01 ...