Tianwen 2 is China's first asteroid mission. It aims to collect samples from Kamo'oalewa, one Earth's seven known "quasi moons," and is expected to arrive at the rocky body around July 2026.

From Tianwen-2's beginnings at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018 to its successful launch last month, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) kept the spacecraft's appearance tightly ...

The Tianwen-2 probe is being prepped for launch at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The probe will "collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 ...

To achieve these objectives, China launched the Tianwen-2 mission in late May 2024, equipped with the Asteroid Internal Structure Detection Radar (AISDR).

Launching in 2028, China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

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

This weekend, though, we finally got a glimpse of what China's asteroid-hunting spacecraft looks like. A brief mission update reporting on Tianwen-2's health included an in-space photo of the ...