TOKYO – Japan’s space agency has lost contact with a wayward probe that botched an attempted rehearsal landing in a mission to collect surface samples from an asteroid and return to Earth, an official ...

Hayabusa attempted its first soft-landing on Itokawa for the purpose of touch down and sample collection on November 20-21, 2005. Below is the data information with the related advance report on its ...

The Society Celebrates Names of Members Etched on Target Marker That Guided Landing The Planetary Society sent congratulations to the Hayabusa spacecraft team at the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) for ...

A new image released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) shows a mysterious dark blotch (next to the probe's shadow) where Hayabusa 2 touched down. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has lowered two small rovers onto an asteroid in an epic mission to study the distant space rock. Preparations have been underway for the landing since the Japan ...

Japan’s space agency has released stunning new photos and video of a distant asteroid’s rocky surface that were captured by two small rovers. On Friday, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) ...

Japan has revealed images taken by its Hayabusa-2 spacecraft during last month’s historic asteroid landing, showing the dramatic moment it touched the surface and scooped up material. Hayabusa-2 ...

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 journey to an asteroid. The ...

Japan’s unmanned asteroid explorer Hayabusa-2 caused a dramatic discoloration on the space rock’s surface with its historic touchdown. A new image from the landing of the probe on asteroid Ryugu last ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Japan is in the process of landing two ...

The spacecraft Hayabusa 2 has successfully landed on a distant asteroid and completed its mission of collecting underground samples that scientists hope will provide clues to the origin of the solar ...