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

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

NASA shows how asteroids shaped Earth’s past. They still hold the power to reset life as we know it, but scientists are ready ...

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

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

China embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday (May 28), riding into the final frontier atop a Long March 3B rocket ...

Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight as Mars lingers with Leo after dark. Saturn is visible in the morning, meeting ...

Tianwen-2 will be aiming for the asteroid 2016 HO3 ... while the "Tianwen-4" will head toward Jupiter. According to The Associated Press, the asteroids, chosen for their relatively stable orbits ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made the Earth and our environment what it is." ...

Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, where Jupiter's immense gravitational influence prevents them from assembling into a single world. Ranging ...