China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

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

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched the Tianwen-2 spacecraft from Xichang spaceport in southwestern China. The probe will ...

The Tianwen-2 probe is being prepped for launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The probe will "collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and ...

The spacecraft's journey appears to be going well so far: Per CNSA's update, Tianwen-2 had surpassed 3 million kilometers (1.8 million miles) from Earth by Friday, June 6.

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main asteroid belt. The second in China's interplanetary exploration program ...

A recent review in journal Earth and Planetary Physics highlights that China's Tianwen-2 mission, launched on May 29, 2025, will carry a penetrating radar to directly probe the internal structures of ...

On May 29, the Tianwen 2 probe was successfully launched into space onboard a Long March 3B rocket, which took off from the Xichang spaceport in southwestern China at around 1:31 a.m. local time ...

The Tianwen-2 probe is being prepped for launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The probe will "collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 ...