The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: ...

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And did you know that June 30 is International Asteroid Day? June 1– Crescent Moon Visible Between Mars and Regulus The first evening of June will find the crescent moon sitting squarely between ...

In the Northern Hemisphere during the spring, the bright star Regulus is easy to spot above the eastern horizon. The alpha star of the constellation Leo, Regulus is the spiky star centered in this ...

China has launched a space probe that will travel to an asteroid near Mars to collect samples and find potential "groundbreaking" results. The Tianwen-2 probe launched Thursday from the Xichang ...

The LCRT will be completely shielded from Earth-orbiting satellite signals on the moon's far side. (Image credit: NASA/Vladimir Vustyansky) "But with state-of-the-art technology, LCRT can ...

China has launched its first mission to retrieve samples from an asteroid. The Tianwen-2 mission launched at 01:31 a.m. local time on 28 May from the Xichang satellite launch center, southwest China, ...

The Tianwen 2 asteroid-comet probe lifted off on Tuesday ... This work will reveal insights about the quasi-moon and help the team select a suitable sampling site. Tianwen 2 will depart Kamo ...

Unlike most NEAs, it doesn't appear to have come from the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter; rather, astronomers think it's a chunk of the moon that was blasted out by a giant impact ...

Tianwen-2 is now en route to asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), a small rocky body orbiting close to Earth ... is believed to be a fragment of the Moon. Scientists hope to analyze its ...

may be a chunk chipped off the moon, which has become a “quasi-satellite” near our planet. The spacecraft will spend one year flying to the asteroid and another year orbiting and assessing ...

This week the country’s space agency is targeting new, far-flung destinations and setting off for an asteroid that could contain secrets that explain how Earth and the moon formed. The country ...