Tianwen 2 is China's second planetary exploration mission, following on from the Tianwen 1 Mars orbiter and rover, which ...

EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary ...

A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...

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

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

This week, see how gold is leaking from the planet’s core, watch sharks sharing a communal meal, unearth Egyptian tombs, and ...

JR is an Apollo class, defined by the Earth-crossing orbits. With a speed of around 40,800 kilometres per hour (25,356 miles ...

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

Asteroid 2025 JR, about the size of a 25-story building, is set to pass Earth on May 28 at a distance of 4.6 million ...

After leaving Earth, Tianwen-2 will reach Kamo‘oalewa by July 2026. This tiny, elongated asteroid likely spans no more than ...

China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing space power the third ...