China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

China has launched the Tianwen-2 spacecraft, embarking on a mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid near Mars. According ...

This summer, a mission originally named in Zheng He's honor but now known as Tianwen-2 will propel China deeper into space ...

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

According to Barnes, within the last billion years, scientists think it was disrupted again, ultimately creating the near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu. Researchers have discovered minerals never ...

an object that inhabits an asteroid-like orbit but whose visual features closely mirror a comet. Discovered by PanSTARRS in August 2013, it measures 1,570 ft (480 m) in diameter — larger than a ...

China launched its first mission to retrieve asteroid samples, a significant step in the country's ambitious space program.

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

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

asteroid Bennu. This discovery offers key insights into the early solar system and the origins of life. In the latest SETI Live, Communications Specialist Beth Johnson and NASA scientist Danny Glavin ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University ...