China launched Tianwen-2 probe to collect samples from an Earth 'quasi-moon'

A Chinese Long March 3B rocket launched the Tianwen-2 spacecraft from Xichang spaceport in southwestern China. The probe will ...
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Why collect asteroid samples? Four essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...
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Perseverance rover is preparing to collect Martian samples that will be sent back to Earth

Video above from earlier this year: NASA shows Perseverance's first drive on MarsAlmost a year after NASA's Perseverance rover was launched on its nearly seven-month journey to Mars, the robotic ...
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NASA’s Mars rover is about to embark on a very special task

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is getting ready to collect its first rock sample that’s set to become the first Martian material delivered to Earth. But NASA’s most advanced rover to date is about to ...
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Why collect asteroid samples? 4 essential reads on what these tiny bits of space rock can tell scientists

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several space missions have flown by asteroids before and gotten a peek at their compositions, but bringing a sample back to Earth ...