Imagine being trapped on a space station orbiting Earth with no available ride home. Three Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, are facing that very scenario. Since Friday, the trio has been stranded on ...

Three Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, have been temporarily stranded in space after their return capsule was struck by a piece of suspected "space junk" hours before it was due to depart. Officials ...

Three Chinese astronauts were due to depart the Tiangong space station, reenter the atmosphere, and land in the remote desert of Inner Mongolia on Wednesday. Instead, officials ordered the crew to ...

Three veteran Chinese astronauts are home after being stuck for more than a week longer than planned aboard the Tiangong space station. Their return capsule was hit and damaged by space debris ...

With around five years left to go before it leaves Earth's orbit and is crashed into the ocean, NASA has announced that the ...

BEIJING — Three Chinese astronauts returned from their nation’s space station Friday after more than a week’s delay because their original return capsule was damaged, likely from being hit by space ...

The country’s space authorities said they were investigating whether an object had hit a Chinese spacecraft and the risks tied to it. By Alexandra Stevenson and Selam Gebrekidan Reporting from Hong ...