The country's space agency said it will return “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the cosmos." ...

SpaceX ended May with another successful launch of its Falcon 9 rocket Saturday afternoon at its West Coast launch facility ...

It’s like trying to dock a boat with a mountain floating in space and tumbling really unpredictably and with almost no ...

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...

The Tianwen-2 spacecraft mission will retrieve asteroid samples near Mars. (Credit: CNS via AP) ...

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

China has launched the ambitious Tianwen-2 mission aimed at studying the asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. The mission is set to ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local ...

China’s Tianwen-2 launched on a sample return mission to asteroid Kamo’oalewa, before heading out for a visit with the Comet ...

Xodiac rocket makes its final flight. Originally built by Masten Space Systems, the suborbital Xodiac rocket had flown 175 ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen 2, is scheduled to be launched within the coming two weeks from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province, according to the China ...

HEFEI -- China plans to launch the Tianwen 2 mission around 2025 to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid and explore a comet, a senior space expert said Monday. The main goal of the Tianwen 2 ...