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

DG5 is classified within the Apollo group—asteroids characterized by orbits that cross Earth's trajectory around the Sun. It ...

An asteroid, 2025 KX8, will closely approach Earth on June 4, 2025. NASA is monitoring the space rock, which is about 36 ...

Apophis is a near-Earth asteroid that has captured global attention due to its close approach predicted for the year 2029.

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

Called Asteroid 424482 (2008 DG5), the space rock was classified as a 'potentially hazardous asteroid' by NASA due to its close passes with Earth. The lump of space rock is bigger than 97 per cent of ...

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

China’s Tianwen-2 mission has launched to explore an asteroid that may be a piece of the moon, as well as an active asteroid ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are constantly orbiting close to our planet. Every night, astronomers track NEOs and ...

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 ...

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