The spacecraft is en route to a metal-rich asteroid. Hopefully, its backup propellant line can get it there by August 2029.

It’s like trying to dock a boat with a mountain floating in space and tumbling really unpredictably and with almost no ...

NASA officer Dr Kelly Fast is responsible for identifying and tracking asteroids, and figuring out if any of these rocky ...

The Tianwen-2 probe, which was launched on Thursday, represents a "significant step in China’s new journey of interplanetary ...

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

Memorial Day weekend is often touted as the unofficial start of summer across the United States, but the first official day ...

SpaceX launched an advanced GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

China has launched its Tianwen-2 mission, dispatching a spacecraft to gather samples from an asteroid near to Mars. The China ...

Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef star as four tech bros meeting at a mountain retreat as ...

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield "groundbreaking discoveries ...

In 2020, China launched the first probe of its Tianwen series of missions, which entered Mars' orbit and landed the Zhurong rover on the red planet in 2021. The mission has significantly advanced ...