China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

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

China has successfully launched its first deep-space probe, Tianwen-2, to explore asteroids and comets — marking another ...

It’s like trying to dock a boat with a mountain floating in space and tumbling really unpredictably and with almost no ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

Some residents in several Beijing districts were jolted awake early Saturday by a thunderous explosion around 3 am, with some ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and elsewhere have detected ...

The CNSA said the Tianwen 2 mission is expected to accomplish multiple objectives through a single expedition, including the ...

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

Webb’s powerful instruments have detected crystalline water ice in a distant star system, offering rare insight into planet ...

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...