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

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

Data from NASA’s Dawn mission and simulations from Purdue University claim that up to 90% of Ceres’ outer shell may be made ...

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

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

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

China launched its mission to obtain samples from nearby asteroids, launching Tianwen-2. China will become the third country ...

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 ...

Astronomers have long been intrigued by the makeup of the asteroid belt’s largest body. When it was first spotted in 1801, ...

A Chinese spacecraft built to collect specimens from an unexplored asteroid and return them to Earth successfully launched ...