Returning samples from Kamo'oalewa will be far more challenging than China's successful lunar missions, mainly because the asteroid's gravity is much lower than that of the moon, making landing ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the ...

China just launched a mission to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid. The Tianwen 2 spacecraft lifted off atop a Long March 3B rocket from Xichang spaceport in southwestern China today (May ...

CAI YANG/XINHUA China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a small, near-Earth asteroid and retrieve samples from it for scientists.

The mission was the first to collect samples from the far side of the moon and return them to the Earth. For this new study, the research team obtained 2 grams of the soil for testing. The ...

NASA / GSFC / Arizona State University Soil samples from the far side of the moon suggest the little-known, distant face of our natural satellite is much drier than the side that faces Earth ...

China has successfully launched a spacecraft as part of its first-ever mission to retrieve pristine asteroid samples, in what researchers have described as a “significant step” in Beijing’s ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the ...