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 ...

China advances plans for dual solar system boundary missions China has published coordinated papers outlining dual missions ...

On May 28, China officially launched its Tianwen-2 mission from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, marking a major step in its growing ambitions in planetary exploration. The mission aims to ...

Tianwen-2 successfully launched to study asteroids. It will collect samples from asteroid Kamoʻoalewa. The mission will also investigate comet 311P/PanSTARRS. This mission aims to understand the early ...