See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

This school bus-sized asteroid is what astronomers call a fast-spinner, and its orbit crosses with Earth’s, Jaxa says. Hayabusa will fly close to the asteroid, and release a target marker onto ...

In a quest to untangle the early history of the Solar System, robotic rovers dispatched from Japan’s spacecraft Hayabusa 2 are now exploring the surface of an asteroid. Before it heads back to ...

JAXA’s research team announced in June 2021 ... first time the building blocks of life also exist in outer space. Hayabusa 2 is a successor of the Hayabusa space probe, which for the first ...