The spacecraft is en route to a metal-rich asteroid. Hopefully, its backup propellant line can get it there by August 2029.

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

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

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

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

China launches spacecraft to collect samples from asteroid near Mars - China's space agency says the mission aims to ‘yield ...

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

The CNSA said the Tianwen 2 mission is expected to accomplish multiple objectives through a single expedition, including the ...

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

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

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid ...