If there was ever any doubt that Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft was able to get access to samples from an asteroid called Ryugu last month, a video released today should put those doubts to rest.

The Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has sent a third and final rover toward asteroid Ryugu, as mission control begins to think about bringing the probe and its precious samples home.

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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 team says spacecraft touches down on asteroid to grab sample. by Alan Boyle on February 21, 2019 at 5:40 pm February 22, 2019 at 8:44 am.

Japan's space agency is planning to land a spacecraft on the asteroid Ryugu next month. Before it does, however, the Hayabusa-2 robotic spacecraft will drop a pair of pie-sized rovers to its ...

Mission scientists in Japan are preparing to lower their Hayabusa 2 probe to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. As part of this objective, the team will fire metal bullets into the asteroid’s ...

The Hayabusa 2 craft is the first to successfully collect underground soil samples from an asteroid and its achievement comes ahead of a similar mission planned by NASA at another asteroid.

Hayabusa 2 was launched in 2014 and arrived at the asteroid named Ryugu in 2018, at which point it deployed a couple landers to test surface conditions.

Hayabusa 2 will depart Ryugu in December 2019 and return to Earth by the end of 2020 with its precious cargo of samples, which will be analyzed by scientists such as John Bridges, ...

JAXA's Hayabusa 2 has taken the most high-resolution photo of its target asteroid, the 162173 Ryugu, we've ever seen. Unlike previous images that only showed Ryugu from afar, this one shows its ...

Hayabusa 2’s impactor in a test, blowing through targets and hitting the rubble on the far side of the range. The orbiter will not just observe surface changes from the impact, ...