The mission, which was launched in May 2025, is China's first to collect samples from an asteroid.

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

The mission, which was launched in May 2025, is China's first to collect samples from an asteroid.

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 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.

Tianwen-2, qui doit ramener sur Terre des échantillons d'un astéroïde, est arrivée près de sa cible pour entamer son exploration scientifique.

China's Tianwen-2 probe has arrived at Kamoʻoalewa, a quasi-satellite near Earth, aiming to collect samples that could confirm its suspected lunar origins.