Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft and its science team bid a bittersweet farewell to the asteroid Ryugu, 180 million miles from Earth, and began the months-long return trip to Earth with… ...

Scientists had high hopes for the sample of asteroid Ryugu collected by the Japanese Hayabusa-2 probe. The actual findings ...

If there was ever any doubt that Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft was able to get access to samples from an asteroid called Ryugu last month, a video released today should put those doubts to rest.

The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has sent a third and final rover toward asteroid Ryugu, as mission control begins to think about bringing the probe and its precious samples home.

Hayabusa-2 will then head towards its main target, 1998 KY26, a ball-shaped asteroid with a diameter of just 30 metres. When the probe arrives at the asteroid in July 2031, ...

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Japan's space agency is planning to land a spacecraft on the asteroid Ryugu next month. Before it does, however, the Hayabusa-2 robotic spacecraft will drop a pair of pie-sized rovers to its ...

Hayabusa 2 is a Japanese spacecraft set to collect asteroid samples and return them back to Earth for analysis. So far, it's cruised some 2 billion miles through space since blasting off on its ...

The Japanese prospecting spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has captured the most detailed images to date of its target – the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. Once at the asteroid, Hayabusa 2 will deploy a lander ...

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2, which has been on a journey to the Ryugu asteroid since 2014, reached its destination on Wednesday. Now that Hayabusa 2 has arrived after a 2-billion-mile trip ...

Hayabusa 2 would then be expected to return in 2020, bearing clues to the origin of life on Earth. Last week, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) got the … Close.