The country's space agency said it will return “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos." ...

It’s like trying to dock a boat with a mountain floating in space and tumbling really unpredictably and with almost no ...

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

The Tianwen-2 spacecraft mission will retrieve asteroid samples near Mars. (Credit: CNS via AP) ...

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

China has launched the ambitious Tianwen-2 mission aimed at studying the asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. The mission is set to ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

China’s Tianwen-2 launched on a sample return mission to asteroid Kamo’oalewa, before heading out for a visit with the Comet ...

The next phase of testing is set to begin for NASA's crewed Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the moon, the ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched within the coming two weeks from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, according to the China ...

HEFEI -- China plans to launch the Tianwen 2 mission around 2025 to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and explore a comet, a senior space expert said Monday. The main goal of the Tianwen 2 ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...