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

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...

Information from Lucy's other instruments will be downloaded from the craft and processed within ... the next two years traveling through the asteroid belt, arriving at its next target Aug ...

The asteroid, named 16 Psyche, is located in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter ... 2026 before it arrives at Psyche in 2029. The craft is propelled using electric ion thrusters, which ...

Currently some 117 million miles from Earth, Vesta is the second-largest resident of the asteroid belt, a zone between Mars and Jupiter filled with hundreds of thousands of space rocks orbiting ...

Whenever the plot starts to drag in a space sci-fi movie, the scriptwriter will throw in the dreaded "Asteroid Belt", or even the "Asteroid Storm". In the Star Wars movie, The Empire Strikes Back ...

The encounter will take place 139 million miles from Earth in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, so far away that it will take 12 minutes for each bit of data to reach flight ...

29 from the Arjuna asteroid belt, which follows a similar orbital path around the sun as the Earth. Now, as the asteroid is set to depart from view, evidence is suggesting it was visiting its ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft visited the asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson on Sunday, April 20, coming within 600 miles (920 kilometers) of the object located in the inner region of the asteroid belt ...