On May 9, 2003, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launched the first-ever asteroid sample return mission, Hayabusa. This ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to ...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will join a European project to observe the Apophis asteroid when it passes close to the Earth by providing the H3 rocket as a launch vehicle, a Japanese space agency official ...

Researchers have found all five of the essential bases that make up DNA and RNA in samples taken from the asteroid Ryugu. This discovery, published inNature Astronomy on March 16, 2026, challenges the ...

SYDNEY — Europe is deepening cooperation with South Korea and Japan as it looks to expand its international cooperation activities on Earth and in space. The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Korea ...

ESA's planned Ramses mission would arrive at the asteroid Apophis two months before the asteroid's April 2029 close flyby of Earth. Credit: ESA WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency and Japan ...

The Hayabusa-2 mission is on its way back to Earth after gathering samples from asteroid 162173 Ryuga. A small capsule released on Saturday contains the first subsurface samples of an asteroid nearly ...

The Japanese asteroid sample return mission Hayabusa 2, which launched in December 2014, is pulling up to its target this week, the asteroid Ryugu. The asteroid, about a half-mile (900 meters) across, ...

New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought. The discovery adds complexity to Hayabusa2’s 2031 mission but also heightens ...

Japan's space agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission successfully touched down and collected samples of asteroid Ryugu on February 22. Japan’s space agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission successfully touched ...