Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe has made its presence known on Ryugu since entering orbit around the asteroid in June 2018, deploying a pair of bouncing robots and touching down on its surface not once, but ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft and its science team bid a bittersweet farewell to the asteroid Ryugu, 180 million miles from… Read More Watch Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe blast away a blizzard of rocks ...

The Japanese prospecting spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has captured the most detailed images to date of its target – the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. Once at the asteroid, Hayabusa 2 will deploy a lander and ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. JAXA's ...

A Japanese H-2A rocket on Dec. 3 launched the nation’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample-return mission from the Tanegashima Space Center, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy ...

Hayabusa 2 is a Japanese spacecraft set to collect asteroid samples and return them back to Earth for analysis. So far, it's cruised some 2 billion miles through space since blasting off on its voyage ...

An image captured just after the Hayabusa 2’s touchdown on asteroid Ryugu shows the H-shaped shadow of the spacecraft and its solar panels. The dark splotch represents material disturbed by the sample ...

Nothing about the Hayabusa 2 mission? No forum threads or front page articles? The mission just reached the target asteroid Ryugu and it looks slightly weird. It's quite the mission. They want to take ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Japan’s space agency said an explosive dropped Friday from its Hayabusa 2 spacecraft successfully blasted the surface of an asteroid for the first time to form a crater and pave the way for ...

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 ...