A stunning image of asteroid Ryugu has ignited a storm on social media, with its clarity and detail capturing the imagination of users worldwide. It is thought that these rocky formations are made ...

Several other asteroid collection missions have also launched from Japan. The Hayabusa 2 Mission launched on December 3, 2014 ...

the Hayabusa2 spacecraft has been hanging out around the asteroid known as Ryugu for a little over a year now, and it’s made some big moves along the way. The spacecraft has already collected ...

It’s been about two months since Japan’s space program, JAXA, arrived at the asteroid known as Ryugu. The mission began way back in 2014, and it took JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft over three ...

Japan's Hayabusa-2 spacecraft has departed from a faraway asteroid and begun its year-long journey back to Earth. The spacecraft left its orbit around Ryugu on Wednesday with samples of the ...

The asteroid Ryugu used to pass far closer to the sun, even closer than Mercury, an analysis of images shot by Japan's Hayabusa 2 space probe reveals. The probe snapped the images of the asteroid ...

The two small "rovers", which were despatched from the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft on Friday, will move around the 1km-wide space rock known as Ryugu. The asteroid's low gravity means they can hop ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said its Hayabusa2 spacecraft detonated the copper explosive, also known as the Small Carry-on Inspector (SCI), on the Ryugu asteroid on Friday.

You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...