When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Main) An image of the asteroid Ryugu as seen by the Japanese mission Hayabusa2 (Top right) a ...

The samples were collected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s spacecraft Hayabusa2, which launched in December 2014 and rendezvoused with Ryugu in June 2018. Haybusa2 then spent a ...

The samples were collected by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s spacecraft Hayabusa2, which launched in December 2014 and rendezvoused with Ryugu in June 2018. Haybusa2 then spent a year ...

TOKYO -- Japanese researchers have identified sodium carbonates, or salt crystals, in samples from the Ryugu asteroid brought back to Earth by the Hayabusa2 space probe. The findings, published in ...

A Japanese capsule carrying the first samples of asteroid subsurface shot across the night atmosphere early Sunday before successfully landing in the remote Australian Outback, completing a ...

Building on this momentum, our ATX LiDAR is rapidly approaching its SOP phase. Its innovative integrated ... phases to the successful delivery of B-sample units, a key step in validating our ...

The sample will be transported to a Japan Atomic Energy Agency facility in Oarai, Ibaraki Prefecture, for analysis of its composition. An estimated 880 tons of melted nuclear fuel remain inside ...

Collected by JAXA’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft in 2018, the Ryugu sample reached Earth in 2020 and underwent global scientific examination. The bacteria, likely soil-based Bacillus, multiplied from 11 ...

Japanese researchers led by Yoshifumi Miyazaki ... In the new industrial city of Deajun, I pay a visit to the forest minister, Shin Won Sop, a social scientist who has studied the effects of ...