That’s the asteroid known as 101955 Bennu. He’s watching it while perched on an upholstered metal stool inside an unassuming building in Littleton, Colorado.

BEIJING (Reuters) -China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid, with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, set to make the fast-growing ...

The Tianwen-2 robotic probe will visit asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa and comet 311P/PanSTARRS. Kamoʻoalewa is between 40m and 100m in size. China embarked on Thursday on its first mission to retrieve ...

Dozens of NASA's missions to explore the cosmos could be in jeopardy under a budget proposal from the Trump administration.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A novel centromeric nucleosome-like structure, termed the CENP-A–H4 octasome, has been identified. Composed solely of CENP-A and H4, it wraps about 120 base ...

Tianwen-2 is set to reach the asteroid in July 2026 and shoot a capsule packed with rocks back to Earth for a landing in November 2027. Then it will fly to its second target, main-belt comet 311P ...

The 1,100-foot-wide (340 meters) Apophis, also known as asteroid 99942, is set to make a very close, but safe, flyby of Earth on April 13, 2029.The European Space Agency (ESA) is preparing its ...

Over a decade, Tianwen-2 will sample rocks from a near-Earth asteroid, return them to Earth and then visit a comet. ... and the United States snatched samples from Bennu.

The first, called “touch-and-go,” was used by Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft at asteroid Ryugu in 2018 and by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx at asteroid Bennu in 2020.

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - China on Wednesday embarked on its first mission to retrieve samples from a nearby asteroid with the nighttime launch of its Tianwen-2 spacecraft, a robotic probe ...

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.