The mission aims to collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 and explore the main-belt comet 311P.

China's Tianwen-2 probe continues on its journey to rendezvous with a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) before heading to the main ...

Asteroid-sampling probe took images day after launch, China’s space agency says, as eight universities carry out mock lunar ...

The US space agency wants to free itself from the cost—more than $3 billion per year—of operating the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit to free up money for missions to the Moon ...

China National Space Administration (CNSA) shared photos on Tuesday of the moon and the Earth that were taken by the Tianwen-2 spacecraft, from an orbit of 590,000 kilometers (366,609 miles), ...

China’s National Space Agency today launched the nation’s first asteroid sample mission.… The Tianwen 2 probe rode a Long March 3B rocket into orbit at 1:31 on Thursday morning. Its first ...

The International Space Station and China's Tiangong Space Station will be visible for early risers. Here's how to make a ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

China launched three astronauts into space to replace the Chinese Tiangong space station crew, further advancing the nation's ambitious space goals. The Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship took off as ...

Shenlong isn’t the only experimental space plane currently conducting secretive missions above Earth. The US Space Force’s X-37B, built by Boeing and slightly smaller China’s aircraft, has ...

This image released by the China Manned Space Agency on November 28, 2023, shows the completed Tiangong space station as photographed by the returning crew of Shenzhou-16.

China started off 2019 by completing the first soft landing on the far side Earth’s moon. It was a monumental achievement, and the months since the mission arrived at the Moon have been filled ...