Japan’s Hayabusa spacecraft is on track to attempt a sampling of asteroid Itokawa Nov. 19. In a rescheduled practice run Nov. 9, the spacecraft approached within 70 meters of the asteroid during a ...

Hayabusa attempted its first soft-landing on Itokawa for the purpose of touch down and sample collection on November 20-21, 2005. Below is the data information with the related advance report on its ...

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 ...

You try coming home on time after traveling four billion miles. Three years after its initially scheduled return date, Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft returned to Earth yesterday and dropped its ...

Japan's Hayabusa space probe returns to Earth after landing on an asteroid. It landed in Australia and may carry asteroid material. Five years after touching down on a distant asteroid, Japan's ...

A new image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows a mysterious dark blotch (next to the probe's shadow) where Hayabusa 2 touched down. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft has begun a descent toward asteroid Itokawa for a second landing attempt. Scientists, spacecraft engineers and ground controllers are hopeful of achieving a mission goal of ...

Scientists will be eagerly scanning the night sky over the Australian Outback this weekend for the long-delayed return of the first spacecraft to complete a round-trip journey to an asteroid. The ...

Japan’s unmanned asteroid explorer Hayabusa-2 caused a dramatic discoloration on the space rock’s surface with its historic touchdown. A new image from the landing of the probe on asteroid Ryugu last ...

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 ...

The spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has successfully landed on a distant asteroid and completed its mission of collecting underground samples that scientists hope will provide clues to the origin of the solar ...