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

China has launched its most ambitious deep space mission yet. On Wednesday, the Tianwen-2 probe lifted off atop a Long March ...

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

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 ...

BEIJING, May 29, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples ...

B rocket is being fueled for launch of a complex deep-space mission targeting both a near-Earth asteroid and a comet.

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 ...

Plan is for spacecraft to first visit 2016 HO3, which could be a fragment of the moon, then start a seven-year journey to ...

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

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

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them ...