NASA’s Psyche mission, launched in 2023, will study a $10,000 quadrillion asteroid, with new research showing that its ...

HELSINKI — China is set to launch its second Tianwen deep space exploration mission late May, targeting both a near Earth asteroid and a main belt comet. The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is now being ...

May 28 (UPI) --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 ...

China envisions exploring the solar system, and it seems that would happen soon. The country launched Tianwen-2, an innovative space probe tasked with retrieving samples from an uncharted asteroid and ...

New NASA research has found that Ceres may have had a lasting source of chemical energy: the right types of molecules needed to fuel some microbial metabolisms. Although there is no evidence that ...

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that scientists and engineers are seriously exploring. Why? Because tucked away in our ...

An image showing the Tianwen-2 spacecraft, including its reentry capsule, with the Earth visible in the background. Credit: CNSA HELSINKI — China’s Tianwen-2 spacecraft is operating normally on its ...