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

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

Chinese state media says the mission aims ‘to shed light on the formation and evolution of asteroids’ and the Earth.

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its ...

XICHANG -- China successfully launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, in the early hours of Thursday, ...

The new development was announced by Sun Zhibin of the National Space Science Centre in Beijing during a talk at Nanjing ...

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 ...

China continued its interstellar exploration, with Tianwen-2 - the country's first asteroid probe and sampling mission - ...

China has initiated its pioneering mission to gather materials from a nearby asteroid, marking a major milestone in its space ...

China's Tianwen-2 mission, launched on May 28, 2025, aims to collect samples from the quasi-satellite asteroid 469219 ...

Beware, NASA, there's a new sheriff in town. While the U.S. is still prepping its next Moon landing under the Artemis program ...