On November 19, 2005, the Japanese Hayabusa (HI-uh-BOOS-uh) spacecraft made the first liftoff from an asteroid. Hayabusa was supposed to return asteroid samples to Earth. Asteroids are space rocks ...

On 5th December 2020 at 17:28 UTC, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 sample return capsule came back to the Earth.

The capsule dropped by Japan's' Hayabusa-2 spacecraft in a container box arrives at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's research facility in Sagamihara, near Tokyo on Tuesday, 8 December.

Japan's space agency said Monday it has confirmed the presence of black soil samples inside a capsule that the spacecraft Hayabusa2 brought back from a distant asteroid last week. The pan-shaped ...

The Japanese space agency (JAXA) says it has begun opening the capsule returned to Earth by its historic Hayabusa2 mission – and has confirmed asteroid samples are inside.

The plenary session is scheduled for 12 to 2 PM Pacific Time on 14 December. This is the second successful Hayabusa attempt to bring asteroid material to Earth: in 2010, the original Hayabusa capsule ...

This is the second successful Hayabusa attempt to bring asteroid material to Earth: in 2010, the original Hayabusa capsule brought back samples from the asteroid Itokawa, a pioneering success ...

Officials from Japan's space agency said they were jubilant about the successful return of the capsule, which landed in Australia on Sunday after separating from the Hayabusa-2 probe.

ASTEROID Ryugu arrived in style last night as a sample of the space rock shot through the sky following Hayabusa2's historic space rock mission.

Scientists in Japan on Tuesday began analysing a capsule sent back to Earth by a probe, hoping to find asteroid material that could offer clues on how the universe was formed.

Then it released the sample capsule — the "treasure box," as JAXA calls it — and allowed it to fall towards Earth. All in all, Hayabusa-2 has traveled nearly 3.3 billion miles.