The Hayabusa 2 project team is considering conducting a comparative study of the asteroid and Ryugu since 1998KY26 is also likely to have rich natural resources, such as water and carbon.

Hayabusa-2 is expected to return to Earth in late 2020, completing its successful multi-year mission. Japan's space agency, Jaxa, said the collected samples could shed light on the origins of the ...

See multiple views from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft's touching down on asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Credit: JAXA/U. Tokyo/Kochi U./Rikkyo U./Nagoya U./Chiba Inst. Tech./Meiji U./U. Aizu/AIST ...

Later in the mission, Hayabusa-2 will use a projectile to excavate fresh material from beneath Ryugu's surface Even further on in the mission, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa ...

The asteroid probe Hayabusa2, sent by the Japanese space agency JAXA, made two attempts to collect material from the surface of the space rock Ryugu. As the now-returned samples reveal ...

T he asteroid sample, coded A0180, was collected by the Japanese Space Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 probe in 2018. This mission marked a significant milestone as the first successful retrieval of ...

during the Hayabusa 2's first landing attempt in February last year. A team of researchers, primarily from the University of Tokyo and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), noted numerous ...

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In a quest to untangle the early history of the Solar System, robotic rovers dispatched from Japan’s spacecraft Hayabusa 2 are now exploring the surface of an asteroid. Before it heads back to ...