China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

This weekend, though, we finally got a glimpse of what China's asteroid-hunting spacecraft looks like. A brief mission update reporting on Tianwen-2's health included an in-space photo of the ...

The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main asteroid belt. The second in China's interplanetary exploration program ...

The Tianwen-2 probe is being prepped for launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The probe will "collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 ...

BEIJING -- China's first Mars sample-return mission, Tianwen 3, is scheduled for launch around 2028, with the goal of returning no less than 500 grams of Martian samples to Earth by around 2031, ...

Launching in 2028, China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

Tianwen 2 is China's first asteroid mission. It aims to collect samples from Kamo'oalewa, one Earth's seven known "quasi moons," and is expected to arrive at the rocky body around July 2026.

From Tianwen-2's beginnings at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018 to its successful launch last month, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) kept the spacecraft's appearance tightly ...