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 ...

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

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 ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

American space agency NASA announced the Dragonfly quadcopter that will be sent to Titan will target the Selk crater on ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

The OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule contained rock from the asteroid Bennu. NASA/Keegan Barber. China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025 ...

Experts believe that this type of Trojan asteroid could provide very relevant information to understand how they formed and how the planets migrated to their current positions. In total ...