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Three more Chinese astronauts are now stranded in space following successful rescue of their colleagues
The Shenzhou-21 crew has been marooned on China's Tiangong space station after three of their colleagues were brought back to Earth in the wrong spacecraft. For now, the astronauts have no safe way of returning home.
'Stranded' astronauts aboard Chinese space station are preparing to come home — but no date has been announced
Three astronauts remain stuck on China's Tiangong space station after errant debris struck their return capsule last week. But their return vessel has already arrived, meaning a flight home will come sooner rather than later.
Three Chinese astronauts stranded in space after debris hits their return capsule
Three Chinese taikonauts — Wang Jie, Chen Zhongrui and Chen Dong — will be extending their stay aboard China's Tiangong space station after their return capsule was struck by a presumed piece of orbital debris on Wednesday.
China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs
Researchers from Peking University say their resistive random-access memory chip may be capable of speeds 1,000 faster than the Nvidia H100 and AMD Vega 20 GPUs.
Charred piece of secretive Chinese rocket found still smoldering in the Australian outback
Experts believe that a five-foot-wide piece of space debris discovered near an Australian mining town was part of a dead Chinese rocket. The wreckage likely crashed just before it was found.
5,000-year-old skeleton masks and skull cups made from human bones discovered in China
Archaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material.
Shapeshifting 'braided river' in Tibet is the highest in the world, and is becoming increasingly unstable
Earth from space A 2025 satellite photo shows a particularly complex section of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it twists its way through the Tibetan Plateau. This part of the "braided" waterway has experienced drastic visual changes over recent decades, which could soon be accentuated by climate change.
China issues new pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions — is it now a global leader in climate action?
China has committed to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% by 2035 — but is this going to cut it? Tell us what you think.
