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

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...

so the OSIRIS-REx team is closely studying the asteroid to learn to navigate in these alien conditions. OSIRIS-REx will scoop a sample of the asteroid in July 2020. It will return to Earth and ...

China has launched a mission aiming to retrieve samples from an asteroid orbiting the Sun. China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported that a rocket carrying the Tianwen-2 robotic probe lifted off ...

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 ...

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

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