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

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

China embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 ...

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

Mission could make China third nation to retrieve asteroid rocks Mission aims to explore asteroid, comet millions of miles ... asteroid retrieval mission, OSIRIS-REx, brought back samples from ...

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

And it scored a pair of empirical firsts: the first landing of a spacecraft on the ... at asteroid Ryugu in 2018 and by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at asteroid Bennu in 2020. But Tianwen-2 will also ...

China is set to launch its first asteroid sampling mission, Tianwen 2, on Thursday, according to the China National Space ...