After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...

Humanity has never ceased its efforts to explore the mysterious universe. As the Tianwen-2 probe embarks on its decade-long ...

Humanity has never ceased its efforts to explore the mysterious universe. As the Tianwen-2 probe embarks on its ...

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

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

China’s Tianwen-2 mission targets a near-Earth quasi-moon and a rare comet, aiming to return samples and redefine planetary science in one bold journey.

American space agency NASA announced the Dragonfly quadcopter that will be sent to Titan will target the Selk crater on ...