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 Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has successfully pulled off a second touchdown on the surface of the distant asteroid Ryugu. The risky dive saw the probe collect material that had been exposed ...

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 ...

Hayabusa-2 first rendezvoused with Ryugu in June of last year after a 3.5-year journey. Over the last several months, the spacecraft has been circling the asteroid and surveying its surface.

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

It wasn’t long ago that JAXA’s asteroid-sampling Hayabusa 2 mission arrived at the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. When it got there, it became the first space mission to deploy two rovers, named Minerva-II1A ...

Hayabusa 2 follows on from JAXA's original Hayabusa mission, which launched a spacecraft towards the Itokawa asteroid back in 2003. After a few engineering hiccups, the spacecraft returned ...

JAXA launched Hayabusa-2 back in 2014 as a follow-up to the original Hayabusa mission that landed on the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. Like its predecessor, ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 team says spacecraft touches down on asteroid to grab sample. by Alan Boyle on February 21, 2019 at 5:40 pm February 22, 2019 at 8:44 am.

(JAXA Photo) Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe began the climactic phase of its mission overnight by sending out its first two rovers as it hovered less than 200 feet over an half-mile-wide asteroid ...

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.