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 ...

China launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from an asteroid near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Astronomers call them main belt comets. A Japanese spacecraft is already on the way to visit a dark comet—and the commanders of that mission didn’t even realize it until recently. With all ...