China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

A gigantic asteroid, the size of a 25-storey building is fastly approaching the earth and it has already reached very close ...

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

B rocket carrying the Tianwen-2 probe blasted off from the Xichang launch site in southwestern Sichuan province at 1.31 am ...

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

The latest mission out of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will examine not one, but two space bodies. After ...

China launches its first asteroid sample mission with the Tianwen-2 spacecraft:: May 29, 2025:: Tianwen-2 will reach the ...

China has launched a mission aiming to retrieve samples from an asteroid orbiting the Sun. China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that a rocket carrying the Tianwen-2 robotic probe lifted off ...

China successfully launched its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid Thursday, state media reported. The ...