Japanese wrestling great Hayabusa died Thursday at the age of 47 from complications brought on by a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Tokyo Sports (h/t Sean Ross Sapp of WrestlingInc.com) was the first to ...

The launch of Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe was postponed for a second time Monday due to poor weather, further eating into the window of time available for launching the mission, local media ...

A Japanese wrestling legend has passed away far too soon. Eiji Ezaki, also known by the ring name Hayabusa, or simply "H", has died from bleeding in the brain reports say. Ezaki was an innovator in ...

The JAXA spacecraft is dropping a few emissaries to the surface before moving in itself to swipe a piece of the space rock Ryugu. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Let's ...

The Japanese space probe Hayabusa-2 has been sending back stunning photographs from the surface of the asteroid Ryugu, and they’re at once stunning and sort of terrifying. As previously reported by ...

An image captured just after the Hayabusa 2’s touchdown on asteroid Ryugu shows the H-shaped shadow of the spacecraft and its solar panels. The dark splotch represents material disturbed by the sample ...

Back with a bang: officials successfully retrieve a 16 kg capsule that it is hoped contains sample from the asteroid Ryugu. (Courtesy: JAXA) The Japanese space agency, JAXA, has successfully retrieved ...

A series of pictures from Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe shows views of the asteroid Ryugu during the spacecraft’s approach. The closest views were captured from a distance of about 100 kilometers (62 miles ...

Japan is in the process of landing two unmanned rovers on a distant asteroid, according to the country’s space agency, nearing completion of a task which it has previously described as the equivalent ...

Japan’s intrepid, hopping asteroid rovers have sent back footage and high-resolution imagery of the surface of the celestial body they have been exploring, according to tweets from Japan’s space ...

After a journey of almost four years and 2 billion miles, a Japanese space probe is closing in on its target, a small asteroid named Ryugu, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said on Sunday ...