The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully recovered the small Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return capsule in the remote Woomera region of Australia. Found among desert bushes just ...

After spending more than a year studying Ryugu, an asteroid some 180 million miles away, Japan’s space agency’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has returned samples from the space rock back to Earth. The ...

The Hayabusa-2 mission is on its way back to Earth after gathering samples from asteroid 162173 Ryuga. A small capsule released on Saturday contains the first subsurface samples of an asteroid nearly ...

The news: A capsule containing the first rock samples from the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth on Sunday, December 6, in “perfect” condition, according to researchers. The samples were gathered after ...

Magnified view of microscopic particle, about 0.01 mm in size, from inside the sample return canister with quartz manipulator used by research team who hope it is first ever material returned from an ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 spacecraft successfully dropped off a re-entry capsule into remote Australia with material gathered from the surface and subsurface of Ryugu, ...

Time to see what the "treasure box" holds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A large number of particles are confirmed to be in ...

Hayabusa 2 is about to attempt an audacious feat. The Japanese spacecraft, which launched towards the asteroid Ryugu in 2014, is on its way back to Earth carrying two samples of rocks and dust from ...

On 5th December 2020 at 17:28 UTC, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 sample return capsule came back to the Earth. It re-entered the atmosphere over South Australia, visible for 53 ...

John Bridges receives funding from STFC. What is your idea of an asteroid? Many people think of them as potato-shaped, inert and perhaps rather dull, pock-marked objects – far away in deep space. But ...