China will send its youngest-ever crew of astronauts to the Tiangong space station this week, officials said Wednesday, as Beijing pursues ...

Drew Thompson, visiting senior research fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, says it...

How vastly different now. A decade on, Xi looms over the country like a stern Communist monarch, reflecting on China’s fallen ancient dynas...

China is preparing for its longest-ever crewed space mission, the country will send 3 astronauts to live on its space station for 6 months....

State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of the spacecraft parachuting to land in the Gobi Desert where it was met by helicopters and off-road...

China successfully launched its longest crewed space mission to date on June 17, sending three astronauts to its new orbiting station, in a...

The world's second largest economy has put billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a permanently crewed space ...

Beijing has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and eventually sendi...

The country has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United States and Russia, whose astronauts and cosmonauts have decades of ...

Beijing has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually se...

At midday, the Shanghai Composite index was down 1.1 per cent at 2,569.65 points.

The mission to launch IRNSS-1H on board PSLV-C39 ended in failure in August last year after the satellite got stuck in the heat shield.

The company said in a statement on its website, "This year will see more than 20 space launches, the most missions in a single year."