China launches landmark mission to retrieve pristine asteroid samples. 1w. ... (16 million km) away, named “469219 Kamoʻoalewa”, also known as 2016HO3.

At 8:52 a.m. (Beijing Time), Tianzhou-9 successfully docked at the rear docking port of Tianhe, the core module of China's space station Tiangong. The Shenzhou-20 crew members onboard the space ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A LongMarch 3B rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

China launches Tianwen-2 probe to asteroid 2016 HO3 near Mars to collect samples, aiming for groundbreaking results in space exploration and Earth formation clues.

The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local time on 28 May from the Xichang satellite launch centre, south-west China, aboard a Long March B rocket. Tianwen-2’s target is a small near-Earth ...

China Launches Mission to Capture Pieces of an Unusual Asteroid. The robotic Tianwen-2 spacecraft will collect samples from Kamoʻoalewa, which some scientists suspect is a fragment of the moon.

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 ...

BEIJING, April 30. /TASS/. The Shenzhou-19 manned spacecraft with a crew of three taikonauts has safely returned to Earth after a six-month mission on the Chinese orbital station, China Central ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -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 ...