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 ...

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

Scientists Stunned to Find a Secret Ocean World Deep Beneath the Ice in the Asteroid Belt Between Mars and Jupiter Tucked ...

Sep. 27, 2024 — A crater-rich dwarf planet named Ceres located in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter was long thought to be composed of a materials mixture not ...

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

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

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

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

The Tianwen-2 probe, which was launched on Thursday, represents a "significant step in China’s new journey of interplanetary ...