China’s Tianwen-2 has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, a tiny quasi-satellite of Earth, beginning a mission to collect samples and test its lunar origins.

China’s Tianwen-2 has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, a tiny quasi-satellite of Earth, beginning a mission to collect samples and test its lunar origins.

China’s Tianwen-2 probe targets asteroid Kamoʻoalewa to solve a cosmic mystery: is this near-Earth space rock a lost fragment blasted off our Moon?

Update: China's Tianwen-2 probe reaches target asteroid, starts scientific exploration-

Ein Jahr nachdem die chinesische Weltraumsonde Tianwen-2 gestartet wurde, hat sie ihr erstes Forschungsziel erreicht. Auf Kamoʻoalewa soll sie Proben entnehmen.

After a yearlong flight of a billion kilometers, a Chinese space probe is set to take samples from an asteroid. The mission is part of what President Xi Jinping calls the…

Tianwen-2 arrives at asteroid Kamo'oalewa, first image revealed China’s Tianwen-2 sample return spacecraft has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, revealing the near Earth asteroid to be a…

Tianwen-2 spacecraft is equipped with varying sampling modes to perform best in uncertain terrain of 2016 HO3 asteroid.

China’s Tianwen-2 aims to collect samples from asteroid Kamo’oalewa and return them to Earth

The probe will conduct a detailed scientific survey of the asteroid and send a sample back to Earth for further analysis.

Some astronomers have theorized that the space rock may be a chunk of material that broke off the moon. China’s Tianwen-2 mission aims to bring a sample of it to Earth.