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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...