China's Tianwen-2 probe beamed home a photo of its target, asteroid 2016HO3, also known as quasi-moon Kamo'oalewa.

A new image of an asteroid, referred to as a “quasi-moon,” has been released ...

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

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 ...

This rock star is ready for its extreme close-up. Chinese researchers have captured the first-ever close-up images of the ...

It's called Kamo’oalewa and only passes Earth every few decades ...

Earth’s quasi moon or second moon has been snapped by the Chinese asteroid probe Tainwen-2 that did a flyby of the asteroid ...

A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon ...

The Moon is not the only natural object travelling through space alongside Earth. Several small asteroids travel around the Sun in near lockstep with our planet. And just like Earth, these space rocks ...

A tiny asteroid no wider than a football pitch has been quietly puzzling astronomers for years, and a Chinese spacecraft is ...

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