A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

A groundbreaking study recently published in the Planetary Science Journalhas raised the possibility that asteroids Bennu, Ryugu, and Polana may all be fragments of a common parent body. The paper, ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) review of data collected from near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu supports the ...

Image of Ryugu taken by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2018. Credit: JAXA/wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 Just over a year ago, material from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission to Asteroid (162173) Ryugu arrived ...

It’s been just over a year since JAXA’s renowned Hayabusa-2 mission arrived at asteroid 162173 Ryugu to study the dynamics of the distant space rock and collect surface samples that would later be ...

A Japanese sample-return spacecraft just gave its destination asteroid a special close-up. As Hayabusa2 swept to only 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) above the surface of 162173 Ryugu, it spotted boulders ...

It wasn’t long ago that JAXA’s asteroid-sampling Hayabusa 2 mission arrived at the asteroid 162173 Ryugu. When it got there, it became the first space mission to deploy two rovers, named Minerva-II1A ...

The landers will study the surface of Ryugu for a good, long while. jon fingas Reporter Updated Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 6:32 AM·1 min read 0 1 / 2 Hayabusa2@JAXA, Twitter ...