Scientists Stunned to Find a Secret Ocean World Deep Beneath the Ice in the Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter Tucked ...

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

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

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

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

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 robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

The latest mission out of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will examine not one, but two space bodies. After ...

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...