Hayabusa-2 is hoping to bring back between 10 to 100 milligrams for study. However, it’s not clear exactly how much sample material the spacecraft scooped up. JAXA doesn’t have a way to ...

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has successfully pulled off a second touchdown on the surface of the distant asteroid Ryugu. The risky dive saw the probe collect material that had been exposed ...

Earlier this month, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) succeeded in bringing a sample of asteroid Ryugu back to Earth, in a remarkable feat which is only the second time an asteroid sample has even ...

JAXA is finally ready to collect a sample of the asteroid Ryugu. And you can watch it happen live.

The twin rovers were deposited Friday atop the half-mile-wide asteroid Ryugu by their parent spacecraft, the Japanese space agency’s Hayabusa 2. The next day, JAXA shared an impressionistic ...

Hayabusa's findings. In November 2010, JAXA said it had collected 1,500 grains that "were identified as rocky particles"; most of them were thought to come from "extraterrestrial origin" (meaning ...

JAXA launched Hayabusa-2 back in 2014 as a follow-up to the original Hayabusa mission that landed on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. Like its predecessor, ...

Now, as JAXA prepares for the most daring maneuver of the entire mission — a touchdown that will allow Hayabusa-2 to snag a sample of the rock’s surface before heading back to Earth — the ...

June 27 (UPI) --Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa-2 has reached its target destination, the asteroid Ryugu. After a 3.5-year journey, the probe is now within 20 kilometers, or 12.5 miles, of the distant ...

Hayabusa2, the second in Japan's Hayabusa mission series, will drop probes on and take samples from asteroid 1999 JU3. See how the Hayabusa2 asteroid sample-return mission works in this Space.com ...

Yes, the Hayabusa mission's sample container captured some tiny dust particles. No, we still don't know whether those particles are the first bits of an asteroid ever returned to Earth by a ...