A groundbreaking study recently published in the Planetary Science Journalhas raised the possibility that asteroids Bennu, ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its closest orbit, asteroid 162173 Ryugu is only about 60,000 miles from Earth. That’s only a quarter of the distance to the moon.

The giant asteroid’s official designation is 162173 Ryugu. If Hayabusa-2 successfully deploys its landers on the space rock next month, the mission will mark the first ever spacecraft to ...