See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released footage of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft descending and making contact with the primordial asteroid Ryugu. During the rendezvous, the probe ...

In order to collect the sample, the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft lowered its orbit down until it was just short of the surface of the asteroid. Then it fired a “bullet” called the carry-on impactor ...

JAXA doesn’t have a way to measure how much material Hayabusa-2 collected. However, the agency says that every maneuver went according to plan and that Hayabusa-2 issued the command to shoot its ...

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a video showing the climactic moments of the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft’s second descent to the surface of asteroid Ryugu, which took ...

Let's fire a bullet at an asteroid. This might sound like a plot point from a sci-fi show, but it's about to become reality when Japan's space agency JAXA directs its Hayabusa 2 spacecraft to go ...

Still, Hayabusa, according to JAXA, broke a world record for the longest operation of an ion engine, the source of most of the mission’s problems.

As JAXA explains, the video here is a sped-up version of the events that took place on July 11th. The video covers roughly eight minutes in just 30 seconds, showing the Hayabusa-2 probe slowly ...

As explained by Kamimori and JAXA releases, what happened after Hayabusa caught up to Itokawa was a series of technical problems that seemed to doom the mission.

JAXA plans to send Hayabusa 2, which was moved to the other side of the asteroid, back to the site after dust and debris settle for observations and to collect samples of material from the new ...

— HAYABUSA2@JAXA (@haya2e_jaxa) September 18, 2020 This asteroid's orbit takes it between the orbits of Venus and Mars, meaning it's relatively close to Earth, but Hayabusa 2 will take a ...

On Thursday, July 11, the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft from the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) will try to scoop pristine material from the interior of the asteroid Ryugu, having blasted a hole in its ...