In a milestone that marks both scientific ambition and geopolitical aspiration, China is poised to launch its first mission to survey and sample a near-Earth asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission will targe ...

Because Bennu is less than a half-mile wide ... OSIRIS-REx will scoop a sample of the asteroid in July 2020. It will return to Earth and eject the Sample Return Capsule for landing in the Utah ...

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 ...

Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...

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

China’s Tianwen-2 launched on a sample return mission to asteroid Kamo’oalewa, before heading out for a visit with the Comet ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

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