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

Astrum NASA’s Boldest Orbit Yet: Around an Asteroid Posted: May 16, 2025 | Last updated: May 16, 2025 OSIRIS-REx was designed for a straightforward sample mission, but Bennu had other plans ...

Because of the 18-minute communication delay between the Earth and Bennu, the mission team could ... touchdown and return to orbit using a sequence of commands uploaded into its computer in ...

“Bennu shows that the origin of life could’ve easily happened ... In the context of water-based life like our own, this means searching for habitable zones, the area in an object’s orbit around a star ...

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

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

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