The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a three-and-a-half-year journey to the spinning top-shaped space rock. Officials have picked days in September and ...

In 2019, the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa-2 probe touched down on asteroid Ryugu. It was the first probe to deploy working rovers onto an asteroid. In 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has departed from a faraway asteroid and begun its year-long journey back to Earth. The spacecraft left its orbit around Ryugu on Wednesday with samples of the ...

The asteroid Ryugu used to pass far closer to the sun, even closer than Mercury, an analysis of images shot by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe reveals. The probe snapped the images of the asteroid ...

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The Hayabusa 2 project team is considering conducting a comparative study of the asteroid and Ryugu since 1998KY26 is also likely to have rich natural resources, such as water and carbon.

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Hayabusa will fly close to the asteroid, and release a target marker onto it, which will allow scientists to study the rotation of the asteroid with better accuracy. Studying these asteroids has ...

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