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

China launched its first asteroid sample-return mission, Tianwen-2, in the early hours of May 29, an endeavour to shed light ...

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 ...

China launches Tianwen-2 mission to sample near Earth asteroid China launched its second planetary exploration mission ...

China has sent a probe on an ambitious mission to grab rocks from a near-Earth asteroid and return them to Earth before ...

Our solar system’s origin story spans billions of years and involves clouds of gas, cosmic collisions, and planetary ...

The Chinese space program is preparing to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NASA in launching a mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. The Tianwen-2 probe and its ...

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another asteroid. Scientists had concluded that it sported some fundamental ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

The mystery of how planets and icy objects formed in the farthest reaches of our solar system just took an exciting turn. A ...

For decades, scientists thought that Vesta was a protoplanet rather than an asteroid. NASA's Dawn mission ... way to becoming a planet and that the Solar System's rocky planets likely began ...