The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.

Asteroid-sampling probe took images day after launch, China’s space agency says, as eight universities carry out mock lunar ...

The Tianwen-2 mission by China targets asteroid 2016 HO3 to gather samples, with plans for future missions to Mars and Jupiter, enhancing space exploration efforts.

Tianwen 2 is China's first-ever mission to an asteroid or a comet, and just its second planetary exploration effort overall. The first, Tianwen 1 , sent an orbiter and a rover to Mars in 2020.

Two earlier asteroid sampling missions, performed by Japan’s Hayabusa and Hayabusa2 spacecraft, paved the way for OSIRIS-REx. Hayabusa returned the world’s first asteroid sample in 2010, ...

A new year of space exploration is beginning. The planned missions include several lunar landings, the launch of a new cosmic observatory and China’s rendezvous with an asteroid.

BEIJING: China's Tianwen 2 asteroid sampling spacecraft had been on its interplanetary itinerary for over 33 days as of Tuesday (July 1) morning, with the robotic probe being more than 12 million ...

China continued its interstellar exploration, with Tianwen-2 - the country's first asteroid probe and sampling mission - being successfully launched on Thursday early morning via a Long March-3B ...

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 that acts like a comet.

China launched its first asteroid sampling mission early on Thursday morning, aiming to explore a near-Earth small asteroid and retrieve its samples for scientists.