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 ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

B rocket is being fueled for launch of a complex deep-space mission targeting both a near-Earth asteroid and a comet.

The probe is tasked with collecting samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3, and exploring the comet 311P. Read more at ...

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

China on Wednesday embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid with the night time launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, a robotic probe that could make the fast-growing ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...