The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which bypassed the Earth after releasing its capsule, is being sent on another mission. It will now travel to a much smaller, 30m-wide asteroid, reaching it in 2031 ...

NEW YORK — Japanese space officials have found intriguing dust-like particles inside the sample capsule from the asteroid probe Hayabusa, but whether they are actually pieces of an asteroid or ...

The Hayabusa space capsule, which parachuted into the Australian Outback after a seven-year, billion-mile journey to the asteroid Itokawa and back, is now heading back to Japan for analysis.

Hayabusa asteroid mission comes home Date: June 15, 2010 Source: NASA Summary: The Hayabusa capsule and bus entered the Earth's atmosphere over Woomera, Australia, on June 13 at 11:21 p.m. local time.

Hayabusa-2 reentry capsule unit displayed at the JAXA (Japanese space agency) Sagamihara Campus in Japan in December 2019. Credit: Chris Zappone By then, a second larger recovery team, which ...

Hayabusa and its return capsule were visible as twin, incandescent fireballs for about a minute to anyone within roughly 100 to 200 miles (200 to 300 kilometers) of the reentry point.

The triumphant Sunday landing of a Japanese space capsule that visited an asteroid and returned to Earth despite near-overwhelming malfunctions now has scientists around the world asking one final ...

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa returned from its seven-year trek to the asteroid Itokawa on Sunday, and a capsule that hopefully contains pieces of the asteroid was recovered in the Australian ...

ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — Scientists will be eagerly scanning the night sky over the Australian Outback this weekend for the long-delayed return of the first spacecraft to complete a round-trip ...

The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which bypassed the Earth after releasing its capsule, is being sent on another mission. It will now travel to a much smaller, 30m-wide asteroid, reaching it in 2031 ...

As it approached our planet, Hayabusa-2 released the capsule with the samples and fired its engines to push off in another direction. The 16kg capsule, meanwhile, entered the Earth's atmosphere.

Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith: The asteroid sample is ''exciting key'' to the origins of the Solar System A capsule containing the first significant quantities of rock from an asteroid is in ...