Tianwen-2 will become the first Chinese spacecraft to bring home celestial material from beyond the Moon, where China has landed two previous sample retrieval missions. China's exploits at the Moon ...

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

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 ...

A team of scientists has produced the clearest images of the Sun’s corona ever captured, thanks to an innovative new system ...

Simulations show that the stars’ tug could send Mercury, Venus or Mars crashing into Earth — or let Jupiter eject our world from the solar system.

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 ...

A new analysis of planet formation models estimates the odds of a theoretical Planet Nine orbiting our sun at 40% given ...

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft is scheduled to launch this week and will study two solar system bodies up close.

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the ...

In the vast expanse of space, an estimated 1 million near-Earth objects (NEOs), also known as near-Earth asteroids, are ...