In a major milestone for China’s space exploration program, the Tianwen 2 spacecraft has transmitted its first photo from space, marking a significant moment in its mission to study the enigmatic asteroid Kamo’oalewa.

YR4, once seen as a major Earth threat, now shows a slightly higher chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. While no longer a danger to Earth, scientists continue tracking it for research. The asteroid gave a real test of planetary defense planning and global response strategy.

A new image released by China's space agency offers the first glimpse at the Tianwen 2 spacecraft, which is en route to collect samples from one of Earth's "quasi-moons". The photo shows some surprising similarities with a current NASA probe.

China has successfully launched its first deep-space probe, Tianwen-2, to explore asteroids and comets — marking another milestone in the country’s rapidly advancing space program, Azernews reports.

Tianwen-2 could help nab Kamo'oalewa's origins once and for all. After spending several months orbiting and observing the asteroid, the spacecraft will attempt to collect physical samples, then drop off those samples using a return capsule as it makes its way toward its next target: the main belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS.

The fall of the Aguas Zarcas meteorite was no ordinary event. It came from a nearly vertical angle, about 81 degrees steep, entering from the west-northwest. The blazing rock left a trail through the sky and was captured on both security and dashboard cameras.

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where Jupiter's immense gravitational influence prevents them from assembling into a single world.

China has released the first picture sent by its Tianwen-2 mission spacecraft which launched on May 28. While on its way to the near-Earth asteroid Kamo'oalewa, the spacecraft captured an image of its fully deployed solar arrays using one of the onboard cameras.

A swarm of giant city-killer asteroids hiding near Venus poses an “invisible threat” to life on Earth, astronomers have warned in a new study. These space rocks, known as co-orbital asteroids, tag along with Venus as it circles the Sun and likely originated from debris in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Dozens of NASA's spaceflight missions that launched from Florida could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.