China embarked on Thursday 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 ...

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 ...

NASA released more details about its proposed fiscal year 2026 budget May 30, canceling dozens of science missions and ...