Japan’s Hayabusa-2 mission is chock-full of firsts. Upon landing on the asteroid 162173 Ryugu last September, it became the first spacecraft to deploy a duo of hopping rovers on an asteroid’s surface.

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

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. The goal of the ...

The Hayabusa 2 probe had an eventful evening yesterday, some 186 million miles (300 million kilometers) from Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) sent a long-awaited command, and the ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 mission team thinks there is “high potential” that the first attempt at a sample collection from the surface of the near Earth asteroid Ryugu ...

Japan’s robotic asteroid explorer, Hayabusa 2, dipped to within 55 meters of its distant destination, Ryugu, early Sept. 21 to release two small surface rover/hoppers, the first in a sequence of ...

Today is a big day for humanity. We have bombed an asteroid, finally exacting revenge for what the asteroids did to the dinosaurs. There's a valid scientific reason, too. The Japanese Hayabusa 2 ...

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 ...

Feb. 21 (UPI) --The Japanese Space Agency's Hayabusa-2 probe has touched down on asteroid Ryugu. At 5:52 p.m. ET, early Friday morning in Japan, officials confirmed the touchdown was successful. There ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Japanese space probe has successfully fired a “bullet” into an asteroid as part of a mission to collect rock samples from the celestial body. The projectile disturbed material from the exterior of ...