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 officially launched its Tianwen-2 mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, marking a major step in its growing ...

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

A translated statement shared Monday says that "various preparations for the mission [were] progressing steadily" and that ...

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

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 ...

This artist’s concept of Comet 238P/Read shows the main belt comet sublimating—its water ... of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 by NASA’s Deep Impact mission in 2010. Both show a distinct peak in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph) instrument, astronomers have confirmed gas – specifically water vapor – around a comet in the main asteroid belt for the first time ...