The Long March-5B Y3 rocket will carry the laboratory module, which will include robotic arm, large solar panels and an airlock to Tiangong

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, launched the S-520-RD rocket at 5am Tokyo time from southwestern Japan

It was the 32nd launch of 2022 and the intense activity is due to the company's race to build a constellation of Starlink broadband satellites

Astronauts say that current space nappies are "too thick and cause a strong sense of pressure on the underside" according to a Chinese space research journal

The new images reveal things scientists have never seen before in what NASA calls 'dawn of new era in astronomy'

A NASA official has come under fire for saying China plans to claim the Moon as its own and wants to militarise space

Musk previously said that vehicles Starlink was expected to be used with were aircraft, ships, large trucks and recreation vehicles such as motorhomes

China's space programme has denied claims that it was caused by a Long March 3 rocket that launched the country’s Chang’e-5 mission in October 2014, although the orbit matches

The unmanned Tianwen-1 reached Mars in February 2021 on the country's inaugural mission there. A robotic rover has since been deployed on the surface

The find - after Zhang was granted more than 17 hours on a sophisticated radio telescope in Guizhou - was announced in the official Ministry of Science and Technology newspaper

China said on Monday it plans to fly to the Red Planet in late 2028, to collect rock samples and bring them back by 2031 - two years ahead of NASA and the European Space Agency

Its homegrown Nuri rocket achieved a major step in efforts to jumpstart the country's space programme after a first test failed late last year