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 ...

The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

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

B rocket is being fueled for launch of a complex deep-space mission targeting both a near-Earth asteroid and a comet.

Moon rocks brought back by the Apollo missions exhibit surprising magnetic signatures. A recent study suggests these ...

The Chinese space program is preparing to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA in launching a mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. The Tianwen-2 probe and its ...

The latest mission out of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will examine not one, but two space bodies. After ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

Scientists have identified three massive asteroids, hidden near Venus, that pose a significant impact threat to Earth. These ...

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid and retrieve its samples for scientists. Carrying the Tianwen 2 robotic ...