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 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 ...

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 Tianwen 2 mission, which is China's first attempt to bring pristine asteroid samples back to Earth, was launched on May ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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-2 mission, set to launch in late May 2025, marks the nation's first endeavor to survey and sample an asteroid, Kamo'oalewa, using 'touch-and-go' and 'anchor and attach' techniques.