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China has launched its most ambitious deep space mission yet. On Wednesday, the Tianwen-2 probe lifted off atop a Long March ...

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

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 ...

China's Tianwen 2 spacecraft launched on Tuesday (May 28), kicking off a bold mission to grab a sample of one of Earth's ...

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

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...

The latest mission out of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will examine not one, but two space bodies. After ...

NASA's Hubble Watches Jupiter's Great Red Spot Behave Like a ... 2024 — Researchers studying meteor showers have found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun.

"It's astonishing that even after 4.5 billion years, enough clues remain to let us reconstruct Jupiter's physical state at the dawn of its existence," stated Fred C. Adams, professor of physics and ...

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