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.

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

Bennu, the asteroid sampled by OSIRIS-REx, had a diameter similar to the height of the Empire State Building, or 1,614 feet (492 meters). Kamoʻoalewa is a quasi-satellite, a type of near-Earth ...

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 ...

The name is a native Hawaiian chant for an oscillating fragment — a fitting moniker ... in 2018 and by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at asteroid Bennu in 2020. But Tianwen-2 will also test a method ...

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to comet 311P China has launched an ambitious mission to bring asteroid samples ...