The Hayabusa2 mission is facing a new challenge after observations showed the asteroid it is going to rendezvous with and ...

Ryugu’s samples reveal that water activity on asteroids lasted far longer than scientists thought, possibly reshaping ...

The European Space Agency signed a cooperation deal with South Korea and advanced a rideshare mission with Japan, as the ...

The next mission of Japan's Hayabusa2 has become a bit more complicated. The mission's next objective was to land on an asteroid called 1998 KY26 in 2031, according to experts. They had undertaken ...

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to not only land on and launch from an asteroid (Itokawa), but successfully ...

Japan has retrieved a capsule of asteroid dust from Australia's remote outback after a six-year mission that may help uncover more about the origins of the planets and water, the Asian nation's space ...

Samples of an asteroid 300 million miles from Earth arrived in Japan on Tuesday to applause and smiles, the climax of a six-year odyssey by a space probe pursuing the origins of life.

On December 6, 2020, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback, becoming the world’s second asteroid sample return mission, after the first ...

TOKYO—Japan’s space agency said it recovered far more black dirt than it was targeting from the asteroid Ryugu, confirming the success of its Hayabusa2 mission nine days after it delivered its payload ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 rocket as a launch vehicle, a Japanese space agency official ...

DATA DUMP: The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to distribute some of the minute samples its Hayabusa probe returned from the asteroid Itakowa. The spacecraft, which imaged its shadow ...