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

China launches spacecraft to collect samples from asteroid near Mars - China's space agency says the mission aims to ‘yield ...

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 ...

The metamorphosis of a previously undiscovered asteroid into main-belt comet P/2010 A2 in early 2010 may have been caused by the impact of a smaller body into the asteroid, ejecting a cloud of ...

The Sun's powerful tidal forces then ripped pieces off the comet ... for main-belt asteroids, but it's common among long-period comets. The authors also point to other impact craters with similar ...

But chemical analyses of comet water ... the volatiles in the main belt comets would have to be covered by a layer of possibly carbonaceous material. They say an impact event could then ...