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 ...

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and ...

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

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

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

Visitors inspect and take a photo of the lunar samples retrieved from the moon by China's Chang'e 5 spacecraft displayed at ...

Chinese state media says the mission aims ‘to shed light on the formation and evolution of asteroids’ and the Earth.

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

In a striking move that signals a new phase in the lunar space race, China and Russia have announced a joint plan to install ...

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

China successfully launched its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid Thursday, state media reported. The ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...