The launch of Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe was postponed for a second time Monday due to poor weather, further eating into the window of time available for launching the mission, local media ...

It was only a few months ago that the Japanese space agency’s Hayabusa-2 mission dropped a couple of ‘hopping’ rovers on asteroid 162173 Ryugu’s surface to capture photographs and explore the space ...

TOKYO — Japan’s space agency said Monday that its Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will follow up last month’s touchdown on a distant asteroid with another risky mission — dropping an explosive on the asteroid ...

If not for Junichiro Kawaguchi, Japan’s Hayabusa mission might be remembered as just another costly space failure instead of the first to bring samples from an asteroid back to Earth. Launched in 2003 ...

After a journey of almost four years and 2 billion miles, a Japanese space probe is closing in on its target, a small asteroid named Ryugu, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said on Sunday ...

Japan has revealed images taken by its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft during last month’s historic asteroid landing, showing the dramatic moment it touched the surface and scooped up material. Hayabusa-2 ...