The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

China has launched its Tianwen-2 spacecraft. The mission aims to collect samples from a nearby asteroid. The Long March 3B ...

Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...

China has launched a mission aiming to retrieve samples from an asteroid orbiting the Sun. China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that a rocket carrying the Tianwen-2 robotic probe lifted off ...

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 ...

Similar to how researchers gained valuable data just from the Hayabusa2 collection process, atmospheric scientists didn't even need to open the OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule to learn something new.

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

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