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

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

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 ...

If Tianwen-2 navigates those dangers and eventually drops its bits of Kamoʻoalewa to Earth, it will then fly to the Comet 311P/PanSTARRS, arriving in the early 2030s to study it remotely.

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

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

But Tianwen-2 will also test a method called “anchor-and-attach,” using four robotic arms with drills at their tips to affix itself to the asteroid’s surface.

China launches Tianwen-2 probe to asteroid 2016 HO3 near Mars to collect samples, aiming for groundbreaking results in space exploration and Earth formation clues.

Tianwen-2 will address several questions about the birth of the solar system, the origins of water, and the emergence of life. Over its decade-long voyage in deep space, ...

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 that acts like a comet.

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