The curious minds at What If explain how being trapped between two asteroid belts could pose an existential threat to Earth.

An asteroid goes missing, and it’s not what you’d expect… What secrets are drifting in the belt?

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

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

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

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

The CNSA said the Tianwen 2 mission is expected to accomplish multiple objectives through a single expedition, including the ...

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

China has successfully launched its first deep-space probe, Tianwen-2, to explore asteroids and comets — marking another ...

The latest mission out of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will examine not one, but two space bodies. After ...