The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, expects its spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid in July 2031. The ...
In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to ...
With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere ...
Having scooped up some asteroid material from 162173 Ryugu in 2018, which was returned to Earth in 2020, Hayabusa2 was sent ...
Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...
More than 100 scientists, including meteor physicists from Western Space, completed first-ever comprehensive study of asteroid tracked from space to impact on Earth ...
For more than sixty years, a tiny asteroid has been moving in step with Earth, hidden from view until recently. Astronomers ...
A large international collaboration of nearly 100 researchers, led by Western adjunct professor Auriane Egal, has completed the first-ever ...
Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...
Astronomers have used observatories around the world, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO ...
With current rocket propulsion technology, it would take tens or hundreds of millennia to reach our neighboring star system, ...
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Can a spacecraft land on a teeny tiny asteroid? Japan's Hayabusa2 will certainly try
Hayabusa2's new target, asteroid 1998 KY26, is just 36 feet (11 meters) across, which will make landing on it challenging.
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