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Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...
Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...
Take Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, which launched in 2014 to grab pieces of a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu and delivered those samples to Earth in December 2020. Even when the space rocks reached ...
Japan's asteroid-hunter, Hayabusa2, recently blew a nice, new crater on the desolate gray surface of the asteroid Ryugu. But what good is blowing a hole in an asteroid if you can't go down and ...
People in Japan witnessed a rare sight on Tuesday night as the sky got lit up by a fireball.The astonishing sight was captured by live cameras installed at locations across parts of Kyushu ...
A capsule from Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere Saturday after being launched in 2014 to explore and collect samples from an asteroid named Ryugu. It landed and was ...
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has already fired a bullet at the asteroid Ryugu from close range to suck up a sample of the space rock. Now the mission has gone a step further by attempting to blast ...
A Japanese space explorer arrived at an asteroid Wednesday after a 3½-year journey and now begins its real work of trying to blow a crater to collect samples to eventually bring back to Earth.
Here’s how it works. Ejecta curtain growth and deposition on the asteroid Ryugu after Japan's Hayabusa2 probe slammed an impactor into the space rock in April 2019.
In April last year, a Japanese spacecraft launched a strike from above on an asteroid. Japan’s space agency was not declaring war. The bombardment was part of the work of Hayabusa2, a robotic ...
Japan's Hayabusa2 space mission dropped samples from the asteroid Ryugu to Earth in the Australian outback in December 2020. It was then moved to Japan to be studied for insights into the origins ...
It is scheduled to reach the surface of the asteroid exactly 24 hours later on July 11, touching down at 11 A.M. local time in Japan (and the action will be streamed live on JAXA's YouTube channel).