In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, ...

Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...

A Japanese space explorer arrived at an asteroid Wednesday after a 3½-year journey and now begins its real work of trying to blow a crater to collect samples to eventually bring back to Earth.

Japan's asteroid-hunter, Hayabusa2, recently blew a nice, new crater on the desolate gray surface of the asteroid Ryugu. But what good is blowing a hole in an asteroid if you can't go down and ...

Take Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, which launched in 2014 to grab pieces of a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu and delivered those samples to Earth in December 2020. Even when the space rocks reached ...

Here’s how it works. Ejecta curtain growth and deposition on the asteroid Ryugu after Japan's Hayabusa2 probe slammed an impactor into the space rock in April 2019.

Japan's Hayabusa2 space mission dropped samples from the asteroid Ryugu to Earth in the Australian outback in December 2020. It was then moved to Japan to be studied for insights into the origins ...

In April last year, a Japanese spacecraft launched a strike from above on an asteroid. Japan’s space agency was not declaring war. The bombardment was part of the work of Hayabusa2, a robotic ...

A capsule from Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere Saturday after being launched in 2014 to explore and collect samples from an asteroid named Ryugu. It landed and was ...

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe, which is roughly the size of a refrigerator, launched in December 2014, thrilling scientists when it landed on the diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu, which means "dragon ...

It is scheduled to reach the surface of the asteroid exactly 24 hours later on July 11, touching down at 11 A.M. local time in Japan (and the action will be streamed live on JAXA's YouTube channel).