China has announced plans to build a giant solar power space station, which will be lifted into orbit piece by piece using the nation's brand-new heavy lift rockets.

China is set to launch the Shenzhou-19 crewed spaceship in the early hours of Wednesday, sending three astronauts – including a nuclear rocket scientist – to its space station, according to ...

For optical astronomy, the space station will be accompanied by the Xuntian telescope, which can be translated to “survey the ...