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China extends its reach into the Solar System with launch of asteroid mission
Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen-3 has a chance to become the first mission to return pristine samples from Mars to Earth. At the same time, NASA's plans for a Mars Sample Return mission are faltering.
First Chinese mission to sample an asteroid starts its journey
China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before making a final visit to a distant comet. Tianwen-2 blasted off from Xichang launch centre in southern China at 1:31AM Beijing time today.
ESA is preparing a mission to study and land on asteroid Apophis during its close encounter with Earth in 2029. NASA is also ...
NASA’s planetary defence programme has kept a keen eye on five asteroids classed as ‘potentially hazardous’, making their ...
A newly discovered house-size asteroid is set to make a close, yet harmless approach to Earth today (May 21), passing within ...
Everything, as they say, is bigger in Texas — including the space-adjacent sexual harassment scandals, and the egos behind ...
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Something's hiding in the Asteroid Belt...An asteroid goes missing, and it’s not what you’d expect… What secrets are drifting in the belt?
In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...
A gigantic asteroid, the size of a 25-storey building is fastly approaching the earth and it has already reached very close ...
Astronomers have discovered six asteroids that are ‘potentially dangerous to Earth’. But is there a reason to panic? Venus, ...
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