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

Tianwen 2 is China's second planetary exploration mission, following on from the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter and rover, which ...

Asteroid 2025 JR, about the size of a 25-story building, is set to pass Earth on May 28 at a distance of 4.6 million ...

The curious minds at What If explain how being trapped between two asteroid belts could pose an existential threat to Earth.

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

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

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

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

JR is an Apollo class, defined by the Earth-crossing orbits. With a speed of around 40,800 kilometres per hour (25,356 miles ...

The latest mission out of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will examine not one, but two space bodies. After ...

A minimum of three 'city-killer' asteroids have been spotted near Venus, and they could strike Earth in the next few weeks ...