Tianhe is one of three main components of what would be China’s first self-developed space station, rivalling the only other station in service – the International Space Station (ISS).

The spaceship made a fast, automated rendezvous and docking with the radial port of the space station's core module Tianhe at around 11:00 am. The whole process took approximately 6.5 hours ...

China has launched a key module of a new permanent space station, the latest in Beijing's increasingly ambitious space programme. The Tianhe module - which contains living quarters for crew ...

On April 28th, China successfully put the core module of their Tianhe space station into orbit with the latest version of the Long March 5B heavy-lift booster. This rocket, designed for launching ...

The crew successfully docked with the space station just over seven hours after ... on the Shenzhou-12 mission is to bring the 22.5-tonne Tianhe module into service. "I have a lot of expectations ...

The Tianzhou 8 robotic cargo ship was launched on Friday night in Hainan province, becoming the last spacecraft to visit ...

This was what taikonaut Liu Boming said in awe as he moved out of the node cabin of China's Tianhe space station core module at 8:11 am on Sunday, when he embarked on the first extravehicular ...