China has successfully launched the Tianwen-2 mission, a historic milestone in the country's space exploration endeavors. In ...

Tianwen 2 is China's second planetary exploration mission, following on from the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter and rover, which launched in 2020. Tianwen 3 will be a Mars sample return mission, launching in ...

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

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

China has revealed the first image from its Tianwen 2 asteroid sample return mission, which is now more than 3 million ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...

After about a year, the robotic mission will arrive at 469219 ... for retrieval by scientists in late 2027. If Tianwen-2 pulls this off, China will become the third nation — after Japan and ...

China's Tianwen-2 mission, set to launch in late May 2025, marks the nation's first endeavor to survey and sample an asteroid, Kamo'oalewa, using 'touch-and-go' and 'anchor and attach' techniques.

Liftoff of the Long March 3B Y110 from Xichang, carrying the Tianwen-2 spacecraft into orbit, May 28, 2025. Credit: CASC HELSINKI — China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

China just launched a mission to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid. The Tianwen 2 spacecraft lifted off atop a Long March 3B rocket from Xichang spaceport in southwestern China today (May ...