The Chinese space station

The launch of the Shenzhou-23 manned spacecraft aboard the Long March-2F launcher from the Jiuquan Launch Center in China

China has launched a manned mission to its space station, in preparation for a moon landing by 2030.

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The Shenzhou-23 spacecraft carried three astronauts to the Tiangong space station. One of them is expected to remain in orbit for a full year, in China's first-of-its-kind experiment in prolonged human spaceflight.
Diagram: Space-based search for ultralight bosons and a prototype quantum sensor. Including a gas-vapor chamber, multilayer magnetic shielding, fiber-optic gyroscope, and radiation shielding box. Credit: Science China Press

Chinese scientists turn Earth into a giant quantum sensor to uncover new physics

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Orbital quantum sensing, spin-sensing, SQUIRE, exotic interactions, axion halos
The antenna galaxies are in the process of collisions. Credit: NASA

How cosmic collisions created the largest galaxies in the universe

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The study suggests that these galaxies were formed from large flows of cold gas and collisions between galaxies in the early universe, which led to the formation of stars at an extremely fast rate
Visualization of the Chinese space station Tiangong 1. Photo: depositphotos.com

China may gain a monopoly on space stations

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