"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made the Earth and our environment what it is." ...

Most meteorites originate from the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and ... our map reveals a continent of discoveries ...

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which ... our map reveals a continent of discoveries still ahead when more meteorite falls are recorded.” What’s coming ...

China has launched the Tianwen-2 spacecraft, embarking on a mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid near Mars. According ...

It suggests that the asteroid belt might harbor other similar fragments. This perspective radically changes our understanding of planetary formation. The implications of these discoveries go beyond ...

The Tianwen-2 mission seeks to reveal how asteroids have formed and what they can tell us about the birth of the solar system ...

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries ...

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 ...

The probe will collect samples from the asteroid 2016HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P ... long mission will “yield groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of ...

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) anticipates that this mission will "yield groundbreaking discoveries ... the asteroid 2016HO3. Additionally, it will explore the main-belt comet ...

China has launched its Tianwen-2 mission, dispatching a spacecraft to gather samples from an asteroid near to Mars. The China ...