Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is on track to attempt a first-of-its-kind sampling of asteroid Itokawa. Ground controllers on Saturday commanded the spacecraft to start a slow descent toward the space ...

China continued its interstellar exploration, with Tianwen-2 - the country's first asteroid probe and sampling mission - being successfully launched on Thursday early morning via a Long March-3B ...

NASA's pioneering OSIRIS-REx probe has bagged up its precious asteroid sample for return to Earth. OSIRIS-REx has finished stowing the bits of the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu that it snagged last ...

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China is set to launch its Tianwen-2 asteroid probe and sampling mission on May 29, according to information obtained by Global Times from the China National Space Administration on Monday.