In a major milestone for China’s space exploration program, the Tianwen 2 spacecraft has transmitted its first photo from ...

The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a ...

NASA is monitoring three asteroids soaring past the Earth at about 8,000 to 15,000 miles per hour, the biggest of which ...

The Tianwen-2 mission seeks to reveal how asteroids have formed and what they can tell us about the birth of the solar system ...

The mission we propose here, the Main-belt Asteroid and NEO Tour with Imaging and Spectroscopy ... Plan and provides additional benefit to the Planetary Defense and Human Exploration communities via a ...

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

China's space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars.

China launches asteroid-bound spacecraft that could tell us where water comes from - China's space agency says the mission ...

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

The CZ-3B/E Y110 flew on an eastbound path and launched Tianwen-2 on an Earth escape trajectory. Tianwen-2 will orbit ...

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 ...