The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and Jupiter, enhancing space exploration efforts.

China hopes Tianwen-2 will match the success of its US and Japanese space rivals by exploring an unusual Near-Earth Asteroid and returning rock samples.China' s Tianwen-2 mission will mark the ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

The deep-space mission is heading for Kamoʻoalewa, a strange asteroid that might be a piece of the moon. China has released a first picture of its Tianwen 2 mission as the spacecraft heads for a ...

Asteroid-sampling probe took images day after launch, China’s space agency says, as eight universities carry out mock lunar ...

China’s Long March 3B rocket launches from Xichang, China, sending the Tianwen-2 mission on its way to explore an asteroid and a distant comet. Credit: China National Space Administration ...

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Sign in by ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe, which will soon unveil secrets of a near-Earth asteroid, has sent stunning pictures of the Earth and ...

China has conducted two spacewalks from its Tiangong space station in as many months and is advancing on its lunar ...