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

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

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Xodiac rocket makes its final flight. Originally built by Masten Space Systems, the suborbital Xodiac rocket had flown 175 ...

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The Starship program of SpaceX faced another major setback on Wednesday, when its Starship upper stage crashed into the ...

China launched a mission to retrieve asteroid samples. The Tianwen-2 robotic probe will visit asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and comet 311P/PanSTARRS. Kamoʻoalewa is between 40m and 100m in size. China ...

China on Thursday (May 29) embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, a robotic probe that could make the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX has launched the European Space Agency’s Hera asteroid mission on Monday morning, which will follow up on a NASA mission two years ago when it ...