Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 ...

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 ...

Japan plans to join a European Space Agency mission to observe an asteroid set for a close flyby of Earth in 2029, a source ...

People in western Japan have reported seeing what appeared to be a ball of light falling from the sky on Tuesday night.

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft captured these images of unusually bright S-type rocks that stand out from the darker C-type material that makes up the bulk of asteroid Ryugu.

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.

An H-2A rocket blasted off from Japan's picturesque Tanegashima Space Center late Tuesday, boosting an innovative science probe into space for a six-year mission to rendezvous with an asteroid ...

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 ...

On December 14th, engineers in Japan confirmed that the country’s asteroid sample return mission, Hayabusa2, had successfully returned material from an asteroid named Ryugu.

On December 5th, Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission successfully landed in the desert of southern Australia, bringing a small sample of material from the asteroid Ryugu to Earth.

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).