Imperial College London scientists say microbes on asteroid samples from Japan's Hayabusa 2 mission have down to Earth ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe will continue its long and remarkable journey to another heavenly body after it delivers asteroid samples to Earth later this year, education minister Koichi ...

Dr Yuichi Tsuda, Hayabusa-2 project manager at Jaxa, told a press conference: "We have confirmed that the capsule contains a considerable amount of [material] collected from Ryugu. He added ...

Later in the mission, Hayabusa-2 will use a projectile to excavate fresh material from beneath Ryugu's surface Even further on in the mission, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa ...

Japan's space agency has repurposed its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft to intercept two distant asteroids and test technology to ...

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Imagine that, for billions of years, you're a grain of material unbothered on asteroid Ryugu. All of a sudden, a spacecraft ...

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more It’s impossible to overstate just how well things turned out for Hayabusa 2. After getting their first good look at Ryugu’s surface, JAXA quickly realized that gathering samples was going ...

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According to Hayabusa-2’s mission manager, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) only needs around 0.1 grams of dust to conduct all of its research. Earth has known about the existence ...