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 been ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a video showing the climactic moments of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft's second descent to the surface of asteroid Ryugu. The goal of the ...

Japan’s Hayabusa-2 mission is chock-full of firsts. Upon landing on the asteroid 162173 Ryugu last September, it became the first spacecraft to deploy a duo of hopping rovers on an asteroid’s surface.

Ryugu is a carbon-rich rock that could hold clues to the history of our solar system. The rock might contain amino acids, the essential building blocks of life. Hayabusa-2 blasted a hole in the ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe recently touched down on asteroid Ryugu and collected a sample from this rock orbiting between Earth and Mars. Now, the Japanese Space Agency, JAXA, has revealed its future ...

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

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

Japanese space agency JAXA has had an up-close-and-personal relationship with the asteroid known as Ryugu ever since its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft entered orbit around the space rock in June of last year.

Japan’s robotic asteroid explorer, Hayabusa 2, dipped to within 55 meters of its distant destination, Ryugu, early Sept. 21 to release two small surface rover/hoppers, the first in a sequence of ...

Scientists in Japan and elsewhere will have a new batch of extraterrestrial samples to study, following confirmation that Japan’s Hayabusa sample-return probe collected and returned material from the ...

Two studies dedicated themselves to the Ryugu asteroid and its samples that returned to the planet, bringing what researchers speculated on the asteroid. As it turns out, the research entitled ...

Despite a glitch in deploying a mini-robot onto asteroid Itokawa, Japanese space officials plan to proceed toward a milestone-making touchdown on the space rock to obtain samples for return to Earth.