It’s been a couple of months since the Japanese space agency (JAXA) deployed robots to the surface of the asteroid known as Ryugu. The Hayabusa-2 “mothership” sent the bots down to examine ...

The asteroid probe Hayabusa2, sent by the Japanese space agency JAXA, made two attempts to collect material from the surface of the space rock Ryugu. As the now-returned samples reveal ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe will continue its long and remarkable journey to another heavenly body after it delivers asteroid samples to Earth later this year, education minister Koichi ...

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Artwork: Mascot has a mechanism inside that means it can flip itself to a new location Japan's space agency (Jaxa) has put another lander on the surface of asteroid 162173, or Ryugu. The Hayabusa ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa mission exemplifies this effort by returning over a thousand tiny particles from asteroid Itokawa. Asteroid Itokawa, classified as an S ...

Hayabusa-2 is expected to return to Earth in late 2020, completing its successful multi-year mission. Japan's space agency, Jaxa, said the collected samples could shed light on the origins of the ...

T he asteroid sample, coded A0180, was collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 probe in 2018. This mission marked a significant milestone as the first successful retrieval of ...

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In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an asteroid. Seven long years later, Hayabusa ...

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JAXA’s research team announced in June 2021 ... the 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 ...