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The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

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.

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 ...