China is set to launch the Tianwen-2 mission this year, aiming to unravel the mysteries of a living fossil of the ...

The Tianwen-2 mission aims to achieve multiple goals in a single launch: it will collect samples from the near-Earth asteroid 2016HO3, as well as explore the main-belt comet 311P. An astronomer ...

BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- China is set to launch the Tianwen-2 mission this year, aiming to unravel the mysteries of a "living fossil" of the solar system and one "rebel" of the main asteroid belt.

The main spacecraft will then head for main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS, which has asteroid-like orbital characteristics but also features comet-like activity. The two mission phases aim to provide ...

Comet Lithium Corporation (TSXV: CLIC) (FSE: 8QY) ("Comet" or the "Corporation") is pleased to announce the launch of its ...

The mission will carry out several tasks in a single launch, including a flyby of asteroid 2016 HO3, sample collection, return and main-belt comet 311P flyby exploration. The launch facility is ...

YR4, which orbits the sun every four years and periodically crosses Earth's orbit. The nature of its orbit makes it a ...

The orbiter will then travel toward a main-belt comet called 311P to continue its scientific exploration tasks. So far, scientists have identified about 1 million asteroids in the solar system ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, has its next target in its sights: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson. Currently 45 million miles (70 million kilometers ...

The rocket is scheduled to launch the Tianwen-2 near-Earth asteroid sample return and main belt comet rendezvous mission in the coming months. Previously, it launched the Chang’e-4 lunar far ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in ...