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 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 ...

June 27 (UPI) --Japan's spacecraft Hayabusa-2 has reached its target destination, the asteroid Ryugu. After a 3.5-year journey, the probe is now within 20 kilometers, or 12.5 miles, of the distant ...

The JAXA spacecraft is dropping a few emissaries to the surface before moving in itself to swipe a piece of the space rock Ryugu. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

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 ...

After spending over a year with the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, Japan’s Hayabusa-2 probe is getting ready to end its mission. The probe is expected to return to Earth carrying valuable samples taken ...

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 ...

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 ...

At approximately 9:35 AM Japanese Standard Time on June 27th, the JAXA (Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency) spacecraft Hayabusa 2 successfully rendezvoused with its target, the diamond-shaped ...

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 ...

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 ...