Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has departed from a faraway asteroid and begun its year-long journey back to Earth. The spacecraft left its orbit around Ryugu on Wednesday with samples of the ...

The Japanese space agency has set dates for its historic plan to explore the surface of an asteroid with robots. The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after a ...

In December 2020, Hayabusa 2, an asteroid explorer operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, released from above Australia a capsule containing roughly 5.4 grams of soil and rock samples ...

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The asteroid Ryugu used to pass far closer to the sun, even closer than Mercury, an analysis of images shot by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe reveals. The probe snapped the images of the asteroid ...

In 2019, the Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa-2 probe touched down on asteroid Ryugu. It was the first probe to deploy working rovers onto an asteroid. In 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

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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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