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

China's Tianwen-2 mission, launched on May 28, 2025, aims to collect samples from the quasi-satellite asteroid 469219 ...

China launched its first mission to retrieve asteroid samples, a significant step in the country's ambitious space program.

China on Wednesday embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid with the nighttime launch of its ...

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

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

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of Thursday, an endeavour to shed ...

The global space race intensifies as SpaceX faces challenges with its Mars-targeted Starship rocket, Japan's ISC plans a ...

BEIJING: China has taken another big step in its space journey by launching the Tianwen-2 probe. The spacecraft will travel ...

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

China has launched an ambitious mission to study two intriguing objects in our solar system, the likes of which have never been visited by a spacecraft before. The Tianwen-2 mission launched aboard a ...