The Shenzhou 20 vehicle was deemed unfit to carry astronauts back to Earth after suffering a space junk strike.

Last month, a tiny piece of debris travelling at high speed cracked the window of the Shenzhou-20 spacecraft's return capsule ...

China’s crewed space program has just been stress tested by the very problem experts have warned about for years: a dangerous ...

A recent spacewalk conducted byChinese astronauts on the Shenzhou 21 mission sheds new light on the growing issue of space ...

Chinese astronauts have installed protection against "space junk" aboard the permanently inhabited station Tiangong, according to China's manned spaceflight authorities, a month after a docked vessel ...

The Shenzhou-20 spacecraft was deemed not safe enough to return its crew after the cracks were found, prompting an orbital ...

Three Chinese astronauts have been temporarily stranded in space after the vehicle they were meant to travel aboard back to Earth was hit by space debris. Just how much damage the vehicle sustained ...

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space ...

Three Chinese astronauts won’t be returning to Earth this week as planned. Officials say their spaceship capsule may have been hit with space debris, causing damage. The crew, which has been in space ...

A window was cracked in November by a tiny piece of debris travelling at high velocity. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Chinese astronauts inspect debris-damaged Shenzhou-20 spacecraft during spacewalk Two Shenzhou-21 astronauts embarked on the ...

Shenzhou 20 reached Tiangong in late April. It carried a three-person crew for six months. The team planned to return on Nov.