China's Tianwen 2 probe has captured striking pictures of home as it heads out to a near-Earth asteroid to collect samples.

"The underground volcanic lava pipes by the Jingbo Lake are the most similar environment on Earth to the underground space of ...

The Tianwen-2 probe is being prepped for launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

China's first asteroid sample-return mission, the 2nd in the Tianwen series, will reach Kamo'oalewa in July 2026. The probe will map the asteroid, collect samples, and carry them back to Earth in a ...

China has said it will land astronauts on the moon by 2030, while NASA is targeting a landing in 2027, though this has ...

Scientists from China extracted water from lunar soil and used it to convert carbon dioxide into oxygen and chemicals for ...

A new image released by China's space agency offers the first glimpse at the Tianwen 2 spacecraft, which is en route to collect samples from one of Earth's "quasi-moons". The photo shows some ...

On May 28, China launched Tianwen-2, a robotic mission that aims to land on a tumbling near-Earth asteroid barely the size of a conference room, extract samples and send them back to Earth. Sign in by ...

The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo‘oalewa.

The experiment was part of China’s deep space exploration program and involved a satellite called Tiandu-1. This satellite is one of three in China’s Earth-Moon communication plan.

Crashed lander looks back at Earth from the moon | Space photo of the day for June 10, 2025. Kenna Hughes-Castleberry. Tue, June 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM UTC. 2 min read.

Astronomers have upped the odds that "city-killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the Moon, potentially causing a cloud of shrapnel that could impact Earth-orbiting satellites and other ...