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 ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

Tianwen 2 is China's second planetary exploration mission, following on from the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter and rover, which ...

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...

China has launched the ambitious Tianwen-2 mission aimed at studying the asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. The mission is set to ...

China's first asteroid sampling mission, Tianwen 2, remains in good condition as of Friday morning, with a distance of over 3 ...

Chinese state media says the mission aims ‘to shed light on the formation and evolution of asteroids’ and the Earth.

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

Carrying the Tianwen-2 asteroid probe, China's Long March-3B carrier rocket takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch ...

The CZ-3B/E Y110 flew on an eastbound path and launched Tianwen-2 on an Earth escape trajectory. Tianwen-2 will orbit ...

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them ...