Asteroids are the ancient remnants of our solar system's birth, rocky fragments that never formed into planets. Most of these celestial wanderers inhabit the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, ...

One of the world’s leading space powers, China, is developing a new robotic defense system for its Tiangong space station.

Tianwen, which means "questions to heaven," is the name given to China's program of robotic Solar System exploration. Tianwen ...

China's space agency says it has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars and yield “groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity’s knowledge of the ...

Unlike in recent tests, SpaceX’s ninth Starship survived launch, but a fuel tank leak meant it lost control before it could ...

China has launched its most ambitious deep space mission yet. On Wednesday, the Tianwen-2 probe lifted off atop a Long March ...

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 ...

China on Thursday launched a space probe on the country's first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid and bring them ...

The CZ-3B/E Y110 flew on an eastbound path and launched Tianwen-2 on an Earth escape trajectory. Tianwen-2 will orbit ...

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

“It’s a good time to think about how we can put AI into space, not just in your laptop or cellphone,” Wang Jian, director of ...

But the main thrust of Beijing's attack is likely to come far above the Earth, in outer space—where America's satellites are ...