NASA has revealed an incredible new plan to capture an asteroid, bringing us one step closer to asteroid mining and deep ...

How can fission-powered propulsion help advance deep space exploration, specifically to the outer planets like Jupiter, ...

Carrying the Tianwen-2 asteroid probe, China's Long March-3B carrier rocket takes off from the Xichang Satellite Launch ...

The CZ-3B/E Y110 flew on an eastbound path and launched Tianwen-2 on an Earth escape trajectory. Tianwen-2 will orbit ...

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

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

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

In 2020, China launched the first probe of its Tianwen series of missions, which entered Mars' orbit and landed the Zhurong rover on the red planet in 2021. The mission has significantly advanced ...

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

Asteroid 2003 MH4, a large space rock, will make a close approach to Earth on May 24, 2025. While not an immediate threat, ...

In a milestone that marks both scientific ambition and geopolitical aspiration, China is poised to launch its first mission to survey and sample a near-Earth asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission will targe ...