The Tianwen-2 probe, which was launched on Thursday, represents a "significant step in China’s new journey of interplanetary ...

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 Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

China’s space agency has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars ...

This larger group includes objects whose clouds and tails are made of ejected dust produced after an impact or as they ... status as the 14th confirmed main-belt comet. They published their ...

In April 2024, reconstructions of the impact dynamics that formed the ... Tianwen-2 will continue its trek to 311P/PanSTARRS, a main-belt comet also called an active asteroid: an object that ...

After collecting samples from Kamoʻoalewa, Tianwen-2 will return them to Earth and then set course for its second target, the main-belt comet 311P ... of the Asteroid Impact and Deflection ...