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

An asteroid, 2025 KX8, will closely approach Earth on June 4, 2025. NASA is monitoring the space rock, which is about 36 ...

In 2022, both Elon Musk and NASA issued serious warnings about the potential threat of a massive asteroid on a collision ...

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

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

A meteor streaks across the sky and burns up in a flash. Sometimes, a small piece survives the journey through Earth’s ...

EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / orbit animation: NASA/ ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...

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

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

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...