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May 28 (UPI) --China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A LongMarch 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch ...

researchers hope to determine whether it was once part of the Moon — and was chipped away during a collision event — or has escaped from the asteroid belt that circles between Mars and Jupiter.

YR4 is a tailor-made asteroid for planetary defense efforts — it has everything it takes to get our attention." ...

The probe's next journey will bring it near an enigma in the asteroid belt, named 311P/PanSTARRS, in the mid-2030s. This object is one in a rare class of objects known as active asteroids or main ...

This summer, a mission originally named in Zheng He’s honor but now known as Tianwen-2 will propel China deeper into space than ever before — its first foray into the asteroid belt.

Main-belt comets exhibit comet-like activity and asteroid-like orbits within the asteroid belt. The administration said that mission planners want to accomplish two major engineering goals through ...

The data gathered by Tianwen-2 could enhance a wide range of studies of objects within the inner solar system, which includes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars and the asteroid belt, Kareta said.

Tianwen-2 is set to reach the asteroid in July 2026 and shoot a capsule packed with rocks back to Earth for a landing in November 2027. Then it will fly to its second target, main-belt comet 311P ...

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After the launch According to the CNSA, the Tianwen-2 mission will collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P, the Xinhua News Agency reported on ...