Hayabusa2 visited the 900-metre asteroid Ryugu in 2018, returning samples to Earth in 2020. The spacecraft is now on an ...
A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...
Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.
In 2018, JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft landed a rover on the surface of Ryugu to supplement remote sensing data with direct rock samples. Some tiny rock fragments were eventually sent back to Earth in ...
It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier Japan's Hayabusa2 probe faces a ...
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...
Learn how fragments from asteroid Ryugu provide evidence of water flowing within asteroids formed in the early Solar System.
A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...
Hayabusa2 asteroid Ryugu samples reveal liquid water flowed through rock over one billion years after formation.
The American Apophis Strategy is simple, powerful, and cost-effective: keep OSIRIS-APEX on track and unleash Janus through a public-private partnership. This would put the U.S. in the lead — not just ...