China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

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

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 embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its ...

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

Tianwen-2 has an approach similar to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission which collected samples from the asteroid Bennu and dropped ...

It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. The two previous asteroid ... space and not a result of contamination from Earth.” Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile ...

It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. The two previous asteroid ... in space and not a result of contamination from Earth." Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile ...

Ever since the Bennu samples returned to Earth on Sept. 24 ... mission measured the same mineral in plumes on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. We also learned that these minerals, formed when water ...