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

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa mission exemplifies this effort by returning over a thousand tiny particles from asteroid Itokawa. Asteroid Itokawa, classified as an S ...

This school bus-sized asteroid is what astronomers call a fast-spinner, and its orbit crosses with Earth’s, Jaxa says. Hayabusa will fly close to the asteroid, and release a target marker onto ...

In May 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (or JAXA) launched an unmanned spacecraft of their own development to retrieve samples from an asteroid. Seven long years later, Hayabusa ...

JAXA’s research team announced in June 2021 ... the first time the building blocks of life also exist in outer space. Hayabusa 2 is a successor of the Hayabusa space probe, which for the first ...

“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 ...

Itokawa sample Ryugu sample Note: Samples of these asteroids to be displayed at the Pavilion may change (copyright (c): JAXA). Moreover, the Japan Pavilion will exhibit sand that asteroid explorers ...