The Hayabusa 2 space probe successfully flew by and observed asteroid Torifune about 100 million kilometers from Earth, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced July 6.

JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 mission plans to pull off a daredevil stunt of touching an asteroid, picking up a sample of the surface and bringing it back to Earth in late 2020. But there’s a small hitch in the ...

Mascot — the white box with a dial on the front — is shown here still attached to the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft. It’s going to get a little more crowded on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu soon. Japan’s ...

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft and its science team bid a bittersweet farewell to the asteroid Ryugu, 180 million miles from… Read More Watch Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe blast away a blizzard of rocks ...

The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2 is ready to touch down on asteroid Ryugu and should do so later this week. On Monday morning, Japanese officials confirmed that the spacecraft will attempt to land ...