YR4, once seen as a major Earth threat, now shows a slightly higher chance of hitting the Moon in 2032. While no longer a ...

China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million ...

Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these ...

Tianwen-2 could help nab Kamo'oalewa's origins once and for all. After spending several months orbiting and observing the ...

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

Astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate ...

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 that acts like a comet.

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...