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.

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 ...

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

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

China has launched an ambitious mission to bring asteroid samples back to Earth – part of broader efforts to explore the ...

The first exhibition dedicated to space exploration has just landed at the Natural History Museum - and it's set to be out of ...

If you were to ask scientists where life exists beyond Earth, they would correctly tell you that we do not know. There is so ...

China's first asteroid sample-return mission Tianwen-2 is scheduled for launch at the end of May, with the Tianwen-2 probe ...

Touch a piece of the Moon, snap a selfie holding a piece of Mars and enjoy a day out-of-this-world at the Natural History Museum’s new family exhibition all about the search for life in space.