Tianwen 2 is China's second planetary exploration mission, following on from the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter and rover, which ...

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029. The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its Ramses ...

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

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...

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

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

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

NASA’s planetary defence programme has kept a keen eye on five asteroids classed as ‘potentially hazardous’, making their ...

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

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth on May 21, passing within ...

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to ...