The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission will drop off materials from the asteroid Ryugu as it passes by Earth on Dec. 6 Japan time. The sample ...

Japan’s intrepid, hopping asteroid rovers have sent back footage and high-resolution imagery of the surface of the celestial body they have been exploring, according to tweets from Japan’s space ...

Join me aboard Japan’s most luxurious and fastest bullet train - the GranClass Hayabusa. Departing from Koriyama Station, we’re riding Train Hayabusa 27 to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto on the sleek E5 Series ...

Hayabusa arrived at its exploration target, near Earth asteroid Itokawa, on September 12th of this year after having been propelled there via ion engines and an Earth swing-by. Since then, it has ...

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On May 9, 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the first-ever asteroid sample return mission, Hayabusa. This was also the first mission to land on an asteroid. Hayabusa would spend ...

Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe has been staking out the asteroid Ryugu for several months now, and the time has almost arrived for the spacecraft to start taking shots at the surface. In a few hours, ...

For the first time, researchers are working on analysing pristine gases from an asteroid. These gases were brought back in rock samples collected by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft, which visited the ...

HOUSTON – The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will spend a week assessing the trajectory of the Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer mission spacecraft after a scheduled flyby of the Earth early Dec ...

the above image (1) had been taken. The distance between Hayabusa and the moon at that time was about 340,000 km. The area covered by this photo is about the same as the above (1), but as the distance ...