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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid Bennu as seen from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx ... Something starts removing the weak stuff while the fragment is still in space. The carbonaceous material, which isn ...

So, the OSIRIS‑REx mission ventured to the asteroid Bennu to retrieve an unaltered ... Something starts removing the weak stuff while the fragment is still in space. The carbonaceous material ...

The asteroid is likely fully solid, and not a rubble pile like the large asteroids Bennu and Ryugu. It was probably a fragment of a much larger body, freed after a collision that began moving ...

Any asteroid we detect is generally a fragment of a much larger body that ... collected dust and rocks from asteroid Bennu and returned them to Earth in 2023. Earlier this year, the first in ...

In 2016, NASA launched OSIRIS-REx, a robotic probe, to Bennu in order to gather clues ... scientists were able to study asteroids only when a fragment has fallen to Earth as a meteorite.