A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched the Tianwen-2 spacecraft from Xichang spaceport in southwestern China. The probe will ...

China's Tianwen 2 mission captured stunning views of Earth and the moon from deep space just days after launch.

Tianwen-2 could help nab Kamo'oalewa's origins once and for all. After spending several months orbiting and observing the asteroid, the spacecraft will attempt to collect physical samples, ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, the 2nd in the Tianwen series, will reach Kamo'oalewa in July 2026. The probe will map the asteroid, collect samples, and carry them back to Earth in a ...

A recent review in journal Earth and Planetary Physics highlights that China's Tianwen-2 mission, launched on May 29, 2025, will carry a penetrating radar to directly probe the internal structures of ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of ...

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 ...

Tianwen 2 was launched on board a Long March 3B rocket at 1:31 a.m. local time on May 29. The launch was not livestreamed to the rest of the world. (Image credit: VCG/VCG via Getty Images) ...

BEIJING -- China's first Mars sample-return mission, Tianwen 3, is scheduled for launch around 2028, with the goal of ...

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Sign in by ...