Researchers studied samples returned by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission in 2020. The spacecraft visited the near-Earth asteroid between 2018 and 2019.

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...

It could mean two bright comets will be visible in the night sky at the same time, on the peak night of a meteor shower.

New observations reveal that the asteroid 1998 KY26 is much smaller and spinning much faster than originally thought.

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 ...

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

An asteroid called 2023 CX1 underwent a single explosion, hinting that it had an unusual structure that might be more ...

Having scooped up some asteroid material from 162173 Ryugu in 2018, which was returned to Earth in 2020, Hayabusa2 was sent ...

Recent research by Japanese scientists indicates that upon analyzing samples returned from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 mission five years ago, they discovered some unusual phenomena suggesting ...

A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...

Since its discovery in 1999, the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has captivated scientists as a time capsule from the early solar system — and also as a key to possibly understanding the origins of life.