A potential new dwarf planet has been discovered in the outer reaches of the solar system, and its existence poses the ...

Scientists hunting for Planet Nine, an elusive planetary body that could change our understanding of the solar system, have ...

The CNSA said the Tianwen 2 mission is expected to accomplish multiple objectives through a single expedition, including the ...

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

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

China launches Tianwen-2 to collect asteroid samples and chase a rare comet, marking a bold leap in its high-stakes Solar System exploration mission.

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 ...

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

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

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid ...

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