China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

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

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

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

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made the Earth and our environment what it is." ...

China to launch Tianwen-2 asteroid sampling mission on May 28 China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend ...

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

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 ...