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Before it heads back to Earth, the mothership will touch down upon the asteroid Ryugu and attempt to collect a sample. Hayabusa 2 builds on the success of the original Hayabusa project.

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 ...

In 2010, the first ever sample of material from an asteroid was successfully returned to Earth after the seven-year Hayabusa mission. In the years leading up to the launch, Tohoku University’s ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

The 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 ...

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...