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 ...

Space news and reference site.On 5th December 2020 at 17:28 UTC, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Hayabusa-2 sample return capsule came back to the Earth. It re-entered the atmosphere ...

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.

After it released the capsule on Saturday, it started a new expedition to another distant asteroid. Scientists will examine the composition of those samples, especially any organic materials found ...

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.