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

Suzuki has given the legendary Hayabusa major updates for 2025, and it’s packed with new features. Known for its iconic status in Bollywood and among bike enthusiasts, the Hayabusa continues to ...

For the first time in a government space agency in the world, JAXA has scrapped the academic requirement for astronauts. By no longer requiring prospective astronauts to have educational ...

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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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 ...