The Tianwen-2 mission seeks to reveal how asteroids have formed and what they can tell us about the birth of the solar system China has taken an important step in its space exploration by ...

China has launched the world first supercomputer in space, aiming to deploy 2,800 AI-powered satellites that will process ...

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

The Long March 3B is 56.3 meters tall and has a diameter of 3.35 meters, and it runs on liquid propellants. The rocket has ...

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

XICHANG -- China successfully launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, in the early hours of Thursday, ...

B rocket lifted off around 1:31 a.m. local time from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center carrying the Tianwen-2 spacecraft, which over the next year will approach the small near-Earth asteroid named ...

China launches Tianwen-2 to collect asteroid samples and chase a rare comet, marking a bold leap in its high-stakes Solar System exploration mission.

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

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them ...