Hayabusa

Just about everything that could go wrong happened to the Hayabusa mission, yet it still made it back to Earth while…

Countries are scrambling to get to Mars in a good ol’ fashioned space race. But focus might be shifting to the red…

Japan’s space agency just launched Hayabusa2, an ambitious deep space mission to land on an asteroid, smack it with…

1999 JU3: It doesn't sound like a very noteworthy name. It's just one of more than 5,000 Apollo-class asteroids. But…

You have to crawl before you can walk—be you a baby or an asteroid-blasting space cannon. Now, after a successful…

Astronomers and space geeks the world over have been waiting to hear confirmation from JAXA (the Japanese space…

Fresh from the (possible) success of its Hayabusa comet dust hoover, Japan is planning a new space mission—sending a…

See that? It might be a dust particle from an asteroid! Or it might be a flake of dried skin from a man in the Japan…

Two weeks ago, NASA released an insanely beautiful video of the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft exploding over the…

Today the space probe Hayabusa returned to Earth after seven years in space studying an asteroid. Already it has…

NASA captured the re-entry of Japan's troubled but still successful Hayabusa probe early this morning over…

The pellet gun failed to fire, three of its four engines have failed, and mission control has lost control of it…