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

Scientists have discovered a new bacteria species called niallia tiangongensis aboard China's Tiangong space station.

Mars has received considerable attention in the past few decades, thanks to the many robotic missions exploring it to learn ...

Carrying the Tianwen-2 asteroid probe, China's Long March-3B carrier rocket takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch ...

Chinese scientists report that they’ve found a novel bacteria on the Tiangong space station, but can’t confirm if it evolved ...

Scientists have discovered yet another never-before-seen strand of bacteria growing on a space station. This time it was ...

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

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

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

On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a bacterium found aboard the Tiangong station that appears to be well ...

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