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

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

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

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

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 ...

Although this mini-moon cannot be seen by the naked eye ... 2016 to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid, 101955 Bennu (492 metres). OSIRIS-REx arrived at Bennu on December 3, 2018 ...

NASA/James Tralie “We now know from Bennu ... s icy moon Enceladus, where sodium carbonate has been discovered. Meanwhile, UK researchers confirmed the existence of a “super-Earth” 20 ...

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 ...

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 ...

has an icy shell encasing a salty ocean with many of the same minerals as Bennu. In October, NASA launched a probe to Jupiter’s moon Europa, which has more water than all of Earth’s oceans ...