A sample of the asteroid Bennu’s debris, collected by NASA’s Osiris-Rex probe and falling above Earth, has landed in the US state of Utah. The capsule containing the sample, pr… Read More

As of: September 24, 2023 6:06 PM A capsule containing material from an asteroid has landed in the US state of Utah. It was dropped by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. Since 2016… Read More

Scientists predict it is going to come inside 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029. Dugway: A seven-year area voyage involves its climactic finish Sunday when a NASA capsule lands within the d… Read More

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is set to release a book featuring 3D photographs of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. The images were gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraf… Read More

Probe twice landed on celestial bodies Asteroid Ryugu provides this insight into the development of the solar system Show caption Show caption Asteroid Ryugu captured by the Hayabu… Read More

Hayabusa2 collects a rock sample in Ryugu on July 11, 2019. AP A probe retrieved just 5 grams of the Ryugu asteroid at the end of 2020: Scientists now want to investigate the… Read More

Asteroid Itokawa. Credit score: Curtin College Curtin College-led analysis into the sturdiness and age of an historic asteroid made from rocky rubble and dirt, revealed important findings th… Read More

Only four spacecraft have ever landed on an asteroid – most recently in October 2020 – but none has peered inside one. Yet understanding the internal structures of these cosmic r… Read More

Japanese Researchers have for the first time discovered amino acids, the building blocks of life, in samples taken from an asteroid. As Kyodo News reported Monday, citing the Ministry of S… Read More

A water drop discovered on the Ryugu asteroid may hold clues to the origins of life on Earth. The discovery of water on Ryugu supports the theory that asteroids in collisions with Earth coul… Read More

Water might have been introduced to Earth by asteroids from the outer edges of the solar process, researchers reported just after analysing rare samples collected on a 6-yr Japanese house… Read More

Scientists from the Japanese space agency (JAXA) and the University of Tokyo have completed the analysis of samples from asteroid Ryugu, positioning the details of the space rock in a study… Read More

Earth’s water has a particular ratio of deuterium. The prevailing theory doesn’t account for the current mix, while the new one might fill the gap. Most scientists agree that… Read More

Source: JAXA Japanese spacecraft ‘Hayabusa 2’ sent spectacular photos of the surface of Ryugu asteroid. On February 21, 2019, the spacecraft touched the surface of the asteroid a… Read More

Images from the Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2 shows the moment that it touched down for the second time on the asteroid Ryugu on July 11. Credit: JAXA, Chiba Institute of Technology &… Read More

Author: Saadia M Pekkanen, University of Washington If history is a guide, conflict in space may well be inevitable. The ‘New Space Race’ both reflects and affects the present er… Read More

If you’re like most people, you’ve dreamed of flying (studies show that more than half of us have done it). If you’re curious about the universe, you’ve probably also… Read More

The Falcon has landed. JAXA’s Hayabusa2 probe (Hayabusa is “falcon” in Japanese) not only touched down on the asteroid Ryugu to collect samples on Thursday, but made a perf… Read More

The Hayabusa2 Mission to Asteroid Ryugu Just Dropped Its First Scientific Results  GizmodoJapan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft will blast crater into asteroid to collect samples &nbs… Read More

If you didn’t know: what is? In our solar system there are many things that revolve around the sun – that is, are in its orbit. The Earth goes around the Sun in 365 days. Seven o… Read More

TANEGASHIMA, Japan - First, a technical glitch forced the launch date to be set back. Then a thunderstorm came in and hit this remote island in southern Japan with buckets of rain and howlin… Read More