US startup Karman+ has raised $20m in seed funding to further its mission of mining space resources from asteroids ...

Hayabusa-2 is expected to return to Earth in late 2020, completing its successful multi-year mission. Japan's space agency, Jaxa, said the collected samples could shed light on the origins of the ...

OKEANOS sought to build on JAXA's success in returning samples from asteroids to Earth. Its most well-known mission in that regard was Hayabusa-2, which returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu in ...

T he asteroid sample, coded A0180, was collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 probe in 2018. This mission marked a significant milestone as the first successful retrieval of ...

On Wednesday, NASA placed the likelihood at 1.9 percent, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. JAXA's Hayabusa-2 probe captures an asteroid roughly 186,000,000 miles from Earth, in Coober ...

JAXA has cataloged the soil samples brought back by Hayabusa 2 last December, by size, color and shape. From now, 269 researchers from 14 countries, including Japan and the United States ...

part of the Hayabusa family." JAXA says Hayabusa2 is scheduled to visit one or two more landing sites on Ryugu before July. One will see the use of a device called an impactor to create a crater ...

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Through JAXA’s Hayabusa 1 mission, it became the first country to collect samples from an asteroid and bring them back to Earth. Japan is now setting its sights on the Moon, with a long-time ...

The probe will use similar technology installed on the Hayabusa 2 probe, which allowed JAXA to collect and retrieve samples from the asteroid Ryugu in 2019. Hayabusa 2 is scheduled to release a ...

“The Hayabusa mission had many challenges — unforeseen ... into orbit using piggy-back launch opportunities organized by JAXA. SRL is now turning its attention to establishing a ‘working ...