A pair of taikonauts have completed their first spacewalk aboard China's Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Two Shenzhou-20 crewmembers performed the ...

In October 2022, China launched the final module of its orbiting space station. Since then, it hasn’t just been astronauts aboard Tiangong—an unusual and previously unknown microbe has also ...

Chinese scientists discovered a novel strain of bacterium with “unique abilities” that allowed it to thrive on the Tiangong Space Station, according to a report. The newly named Niallia ...

With plans to retire the International Space Station (ISS) well underway, American space agency NASA is looking at commercial partners to help with the development of the next generation space ...

This bacterium, never before seen on Earth, was detected on China's Tiangong space station. It has been named Niallia tiangongensis, and it inhabited the cockpit controls on the station ...

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"This is what lightning looks like from the top down," wrote Anne McClain, a NASA astronauts and Expedition 73 crew member, from aboard the International Space Station, in May 2025. Though this is ...

The bacteria, retrieved from samples obtained during the Shenzhou 15 crewed mission, appear to have survived several months aboard China's Tiangong space station in 2022 and 2023. Researchers ...

Chinese scientists report that they’ve found a novel bacteria on the Tiangong space station, but can’t confirm if it evolved on the station itself or on Earth before hitching a ride skyward.

A newly discovered species of bacteria has been found living aboard China’s Tiangong space station, and scientists say it may be uniquely adapted to survive the extreme conditions of space.